Slavery: Malta At The Crossroads craft-items The façade of a village

The façade of a village house damascened in seashells – Renzo Piano it ain’t

f’Malta wkoll kellna t-traġedji li wħud minnhom ma ntesew qatt

TRADUZZJONI Kull kelma għandha traduzzjoni bl-Ingliż biex tkompli tgħin fit-tifsira

Imma min jista’ jtemm ħajjet ix-xwejjaħ jekk ir-Repubblika Venezjana tinsab mingħajr il-Bravu

Iżda min hu fil-verità Makarju

Slavery: Malta At The Crossroads craft-items The façade of a villageOn 28 September 1871 an anonymous letter in a local newspaper complained that slaves from North Africa were being landed in Malta for later transfer to the Levant. That letter led to a parliamentary question in the House of Commons and open a can of worms for the British administration in Malta. Both the Foreign and Colonial Offices in London and the Malta governors had to seek a solution to the thorny problem. All efforts to stamp the practice,