OBV Black History Month competition winner

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OBV would like to congratulate Maurice Price who was the winner of our Black History Month book competition.

Mr Price wins a signed copy of Remi Kapo's Reap the Forgotten Harvest, labelled as one of the greatest novels of slavery which covered all aspects of life on a slave ship.

Mr Price gave the correct answer to the first question of what is an Astrolabe, which is a navigation instrument to work out the position of a ship at sea. He also gave his hero from the slave trade period, writing about John Newton, the writer of Amazing Grace.

Writing about John Newton, Mr Price said,

"As a white man I can relate to the feeling of my eyes being opened to the oppression that I have benefited from and my obligation to tackle that transgression as an ordinary man. Like Newton, I'm just an ordinary guy. Unlike him, I have never been directly involved in the slave trade. However it is self-delusion to try to convince myself that I have not gained from it by way of the riches of my country and the opportunities that fall to me and everyone being born in Britain. Newton did what he could in the fight for equality, decency and respect for my brothers and sisters the world over. His challenge to me is to do my bit, however small, so that I leave this world a better place than I found it."

Once again, congratulations to Mr Price for winning OBV's Black History Month competition.

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