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‘I tell the truth about what’s unknown’: Moor Mother on revealing Britain’s ongoing slavery links
The American poet and musician’s new album The Great Bailout tracks the money given to British slaveowners – including David Cameron’s ancestors. She explains why she is pessimistic about getting true justice
Since then, the 2020 Black Lives Matter protests brought the discourse around systemic racism and colonialism to the forefront of public attention and so today, Ayewa’s ruminations – about our slowness to reckon with the effects of the slave trade – wouldn’t be deemed as “fringe” as they once were. Made in collaboration with the London Contemporary Orchestra, it is a harrowing odyssey exploring British colonialism and the 1835 act that compensated 46,000 slave owners with £20m(£17bn today) for their lost “property” due to the legal abolition of slavery. The opener Guilty, featuring Lonnie Holleyand Raia Was, sets the eerie cinematic tone of the entire album with layered vocals, whispers, strings, horns and even more questions: “Did you pay off the trauma?
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