{"id":8973,"date":"2019-09-14T01:44:17","date_gmt":"2019-09-13T16:44:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/sep\/13\/tone-deaf-ads-use-slave-ship-images-to-promote-uk-sea-trade"},"modified":"2019-09-14T01:44:17","modified_gmt":"2019-09-13T16:44:17","slug":"tone-deaf-ads-use-slave-ship-images-to-promote-uk-sea-going-sector","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=8973","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Tone deaf&#8217; ads use slave ship images to promote UK sea-going sector"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign accused of ignoring colonial abuses when setting out maritime industries\u2019 future<\/p>\n<p>Historians and academics have labelled a new government campaign \u201ctone deaf\u201d and \u201chistorically illiterate\u201d for using images of ships used for slavery and colonisation to promote Britain\u2019s maritime sector.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The UK has a long history with commercial shipping, reaching as far back as 1700 \u2693\ufe0f<br \/>&nbsp;<br \/>Our <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Maritime2050?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Maritime2050<\/a> plan maps out the next 30 years of innovation. Find out more&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/VqYPNw300C\">https:\/\/t.co\/VqYPNw300C<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/LISW19?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#LISW19<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/0Olw3gk2F8\">pic.twitter.com\/0Olw3gk2F8<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2019\/sep\/13\/tone-deaf-ads-use-slave-ship-images-to-promote-uk-sea-trade\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Campaign accused of ignoring colonial abuses when setting out maritime industries\u2019 futureHistorians and academics have labelled a new government campaign \u201ctone deaf\u201d and \u201chistorically illiterate\u201d for using images of ships used for slavery and colonisat&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":202,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[558,62,557,362,713,61,52,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-global-economy","category-india","category-international-trade","category-race","category-slavery","category-south-and-central-asia","category-uk-news","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/202"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8973"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8975,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8973\/revisions\/8975"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}