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The skulls of 19 black Americans returned to New Orleans after more than a century in Germany, where they were sent for racist research.
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Mary Luiz from New Orlean was life for life because of malnutrition. Hiram Malon came to Louisiana from Alabama, in the hospital in 21 with a fatal state of pneumonia. Samuel Prince was a 40 -year -old cook, surrendered to tuberculosis.
They were among 19 black patients who died at New Orleans Hospital in the 1970s, and were isolated by their heads by the doctor to send to Germany. There, it was a Karani He studied as “samples” In what was then false science proliferated by PhRNOLOGY. The links between a person’s mind or morals and the size or the shape of his skull have claimed, as some doctors look at the superiority of another race.
The skulls of these 19 patients have now been returned to Louisiana more than a century abroad. On Saturday, they were honored in a multi -debt monument and placed to rest at the jazz funeral, rooted in the traditions of New Orleans.
“We cannot be exactly sure where they came from. Here, here, we have. What will we do from what happened to them?” Eva Bahama, dated from the University of Delard, who led the Cultural Return Committee to the homeland, said, During the Saturday service. “You can get angry. You may be upset, right. But we cannot stay there.”
Residue Repeated before Leipzig University, which in 2023 called the city’s archaeologist in New Orleans, Confession Skulls were obtained in “colonial and immoral context.” The two -year return process included institutions in the city, the state and the academy. It was crowned with a remarkable international compensation, the return of American -African residue from Europe – with many remains that still exist in archive groups throughout the United States and abroad, in museums and universities.
Researchers assume that many of the 19 people have been enslaved, and later moved freely after the civil war, and in the end they fell ill or the institutional character was added to asylum before landing in the New Orleans charitable hospital. It was one of the oldest hospitals in the country, which serves the city’s poor for several centuries; It was closed due to the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The hospital death record Some of the moments of the CV Of the 13 men and four women. Two unidentified people.
In the memorial on Saturday, I read a group of Dellard students from that CV, ending with their return trip:
“Another trip across the Atlantic Ocean, the bones of the worshipers pass on the ocean bottom,” the students’ account went. “From Africa, to the Caribbean Sea region, to the United States of America; from New Orleans, Louisiana, to Leipzig, Germany; from Leipzig, Germany to New Orleans, Louisiana – Justice holds 19 men and women.
On Saturday, a prayer ceremony of ten religious leaders of various religions included, with an African cylinder and dance that leads those present from the church. The processors in the white gloves carry souvenirs that contain skulls for lure. The jazz music band was accompanied by the procession.
“History does not wander in or start. It is that we move forward. And when we maintain our past, we start every day.”