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When a burial for slave trade victims is unearthed, a small island faces a reckoning | Aeon Videos

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Summary
Nutrition label

57% Informative

Short documentary from UK directors Joseph Curran and Dominic Aubrey de Vere explores the unmarked final resting places of some 9,000 victims of the transatlantic slave trade whose stories have largely gone untold.

Buried details the conversations and controversies that followed when, amid the construction of a new airport on St Helena in 2008 , the bodies and burial objects of 325 once-enslaved Africans were unearthed.

VR Score

42

Informative language

34

Neutral language

30

Article tone

formal

Language

English

Language complexity

72

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived

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no external sources

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no sources

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