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Redemption Song – Il Toro e la Bambina

Redemption Song

Dal 2019, anche quest’anno nel mese di febbraio, il Toro e la Bambina pubblica Redemption Song di Bob Marley. La cover di Alicia Keys si aggiunge a quelle di John Legend, Laureen Hill e Ziggy Marley, i Gentleman e Ky-Mani Marley, e Chris Cornell.

Il brano fa riferimento alla tratta di esseri umani, avvenuta dal XVI al XIX secolo, ai danni delle popolazioni del continente africano. In questo periodo, è stato stimato che circa 12 milioni di persone siano state deportate e ridotte in schiavitù da imprenditori e latifondisti nelle Americhe.

Il suo momento cruciale fu segnato dallo sviluppo delle piantagioni di canna da zucchero e altri prodotti destinati al mercato europeo. Tuttavia, gli schiavi vennero venduti nella stessa Europa, prima in Portogallo e Spagna, e successivamente nei paesi nordeuropei, dove erano impiegati come servi domestici e braccianti agricoli.

A causa della tratta, e delle sue conseguenze, morirono quattro milioni di africani. Afroamericani e africani vi si riferiscono con il termine black holocaust (olocausto nero) o maafa (grande tragedia, in lingua swahili). I principali paesi coinvolti sono Brasile, Francia, Paesi Bassi, Portogallo, Regno Unito, Spagna e Stati Uniti d’America.

Redemption Song è un appello alla presa di coscienza e un inno alla dignità e la libertà.

Old pirates, yes, they rob ISold I to the merchant shipsMinutes after they took IFrom the bottomless pitBut my hand was made strongBy the hand of the AlmightyWe forward in this generationTriumphantly
Won't you help to singThese songs of freedom?'Cause all I ever have:Redemption songsRedemption songs
Emancipate yourselves from mental slaveryNone but ourselves can free our mindsHave no fear for atomic energy'Cause none of them can stop the timeHow long shall they kill our prophetsWhile we stand aside and look?Some say it's just a part of itWe've got to fulfill the Book
Won't you help to singThese songs of freedom?'Cause all I ever haveRedemption songsRedemption songsRedemption songs

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