tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-24265097020198380622024-03-04T23:50:16.483-08:00BaileyblogAnne C. Bailey and company write about race, slavery, refugees, diasporas, African American, Caribbean and African studies, human rights, history and memory. We publish every weekend.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954942158357353229noreply@blogger.comBlogger68125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426509702019838062.post-36615851641787334982018-07-22T11:48:00.000-07:002018-07-22T21:09:39.452-07:00All about the African Safaris that you thought you could not afford<br />
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teaching African and African American history I have to confess that I did not
know until recently that safaris come in all sizes and a variety of packages.
These excursions to observe the animals of Africa in their natural environments
are not at all exclusively for the rich.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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media shapes our perceptions. A few weeks ago, everyone to whom I mentioned
that we were going to Kenya asked if we would be going on a safari.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What followed was often a conversation about
the exorbitant costs of safaris.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now I am in Kenya only
to find out that thanks to a progressive government policy, there are national
parks that everyone from schoolchildren to foreigners can access at an
affordable cost. In fact, it is clear that Kenya as a part of their school curriculum
regularly expose their young to these parks on field trips.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There seems to have been a longstanding
commitment to encouraging young people to be good stewards of this incredible
wildlife heritage.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was happy to find out that one can
enter a National Park for about $80 and stay overnight at a campsite from as
little as $20.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(For comparison,
Disneyland is about $90 a day.) Hotel prices also vary from the low end to the
high.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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airfare, but these days, good old fashioned competition is driving down prices.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Many airlines fly there including Kenya
Airways, Ethiopian Airways, British Airways, KLM, Qatar Airways and others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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perception that this is an experience primarily for the rich?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The reality is that Kenya became an
independent nation in 1963 (having been colonized by the British) and many of
these parks were set up only a few short years after.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Lake Nakuru National Park, for example, was
set up only 4 years later at the height of independence fervor.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: #26282a; font-family: "helvetica" , sans-serif; font-size: 16.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The good news is that the safaris of
Kenya are accessible and affordable.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May
many from around the world come and discover all they have to offer.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954942158357353229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426509702019838062.post-60271090688339242092018-07-17T00:43:00.001-07:002018-07-17T00:45:54.037-07:00The Kenya Chronicles and Travel Channel Appearance July 19<div style="background: 0px 0px rgb(255, 255, 255); border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; color: #222222; font-family: "Open Sans", Helvetica, Arial, Lucida, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 1em; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">
Today marks the beginning of The Kenya Chronicles—intermittent news and articles about the country of Kenya. I am here on the African continent for three weeks having been invited by a local university to give a talk about the highs and lows of publishing works of history. I was happy to to interface with their faculty and students and to donate copies of my books to their library. It’s been a great time!</div>
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Beyond the university, I have been on somewhat of an adventure – from one day safaris to roaming around the Old Town of the coastal town of Mombasa. I have even been to a church service in Swahili! I am weaving in and out of the hustle and bustle of big city Nairobi while at the same time enjoying the lush countryside – particularly the farms with rows and rows of tea bushes and coffee trees. Kenya is number 2 in terms of exportation of coffee so this really is the place to be if you love coffee and tea. Taking tea all day is growing on me. The scent, the taste, the diversity of the tea offerings are nothing short of amazing. A lot of things are impressive here, but perhaps chief of all is the importance of family as we have been warmly embraced by families here as we move from town to country and country to town.</div>
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So there is much to say about this incredible country but for today, I share just a few pictures to whet your appetite for the other upcoming segments of The Kenya Chronicles.</div>
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The Joint Committee on Human Rights of the UK Parliament has published Windrush generation detention report.</div>
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The Home Office provided ‘no credible explanation’ as to why two children of the Windrush generation, Paulette Wilson and Anthony Bryan, were wrongfully locked up twice, depriving them of their human right to liberty, according to a report by the Joint Committee on Human Rights published today.</div>
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The Committee, made up of MPs and Peers Chaired by Harriet Harman MP, took evidence in person from Ms Wilson and Mr Bryan, (who have been settled in the UK since childhood) and examined their Home Office cases files. From the outset, the files contained all the evidence that showed that the Home Office had no right to detain them. But the Home Office still wrongly detained them, twice. The analyses of the two case files are set out as appendices to the report.</div>
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In evidence to the Committee, the Home Secretary said that he was sorry for what had happened. A senior official from the Home Office called the handling of these cases a ‘mistake’ but could give the Committee no account of any action that had been taken at the department to address the very serious shortcomings in these cases.</div>
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For more see link below:</div>
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Other articles by the BBC</div>
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https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-44807801</div>
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<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: 700; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-size-adjust: 100%; vertical-align: baseline;">Travel Channel Appearance this coming Thursday, July 19</span></div>
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I am appearing on another episode of The Travel Channel’s Mysteries at the Museum series this Thursday at 9pm EST.</div>
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Should be fun. Check it out if you can.</div>
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Who would not be in Savannah to-day?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><span class="tab" style="box-sizing: border-box; margin-left: 5px;"></span>Out by the Race-course, — there is the Play, —<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Tragedies, comedies, all together<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Shaking hands in the wild March weather.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />There are hundreds of actors, the programmes tell,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And some, at each scene are to say farewell;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Trust me, 't will be a marvellous Play,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />For this is Pierce Butler's " Benefit " day.</div>
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Mark them. See with what eager eyes<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />They watch and wait till the curtain rise:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Some from the rice-fields broad and green<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />That stretch the swamp and the shore between;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And some from St. Simon's Isle, that lies<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A league away where the land-breeze dies, —<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />St. Simon's Isle where the sea-wave flows,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And the fairest and finest cotton grows.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Parents and children, every one,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Have toiled for others since life begun;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But then each man at his cabin door<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Could sit in peace when his work was o'er,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And the same roof covered them all, though slaves,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And the same moon rose on their fathers' graves,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And they laughed and sung and hoped to rest<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />One day in the soil which their young feet prest.</div>
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What does it mean that they tremble here,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Waiting the call of the auctioneer?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />What does it mean! 'T is a common tale, —<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Their master's funds were about to fail;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Mister Pierce Butler has debts to pay,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And this, good friends, is the only way.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Generous souls! For his lordly sake<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />They ought to be willing their hearts should break.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And rejoice to be anywhere, anyhow sold,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />To fill his coffers with needful gold!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />For what is the grief of such as these<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Compared to a gentleman's moneyed ease?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And then, when the little arrangement's made.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And he feels quite sure 't was a gaining trade,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />He 'll give them a dollar! — that will heal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Every sorrow a slave can feel.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Scores for the master and one for his tool, —<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Thus he 'll follow the Golden Rule<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />That reads, " To others I 'll do what I see<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Will bring the most money to mine and me. "</div>
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Eleven o'clock and the sale begins, —<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Now the best man is the man who wins<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hand and brain at the lowest price<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />For his fields of cotton and cane and rice.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Buyers are there from the far Southwest<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />To the Georgian isles on the ocean's breast,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And from Florida jungles, gay with vines,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />North to the woods of the Carolines;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And higher and higher the bidding goes,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And wilder, without, the March wind blows,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />As one and another, faint with fear,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Are led to the block their doom to hear.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />There is Elisha with children and wife,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />O how anxiously watching the strife!</div>
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A mild-faced man in the crowd they spy, —<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Can he not, will he not all of them buy?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And he weeps and pleads, but the man denies,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />For he sees where a closer bargain lies,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And their courage sinks and their tears come fast;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But what of this? When the sale is past<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />They 'll have a dollar! and that will heal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Every sorrow a slave can feel.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Scores for the master and one for his tool, —<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Thus is followed the Golden Rule<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />That reads, " To others I 'll do what I see<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Will bring the most money to mine and me. "</div>
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The wind blew strong and the rain was cold,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And Daphney's babe was but two weeks old,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And to shield them both from the driving storm<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A shawl is over her trembling form:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />" Off with it! " " What is the matter? " they shout,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And the jest and the oath are passed about<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Till she droops and shivers and wonders why<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />It was not hers and her child's to die.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But what of this? When the sale is done,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And the papers are signed and the profits won,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />She 'll have a dollar! and that will heal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Every sorrow a slave can feel.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Scores for the master and one for his tool, —<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Thus is followed the Golden Rule<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />That reads, " To others I 'll do what I see<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Will bring the most money to mine and me. "</div>
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Jeffrey has neither father nor mother,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But Jeffrey and Dorcas love each other<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />With a love that never can change or fail,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And he tells his master the simple tale,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And begs him to buy her with earnest tone, —<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But Dorcas cannot be sold alone;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />He goes to the swamp-lands, drearily parted,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And she to the cotton-fields, broken-hearted!<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But what of this? 'T is a trifling thing;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Did they not excellent prices bring?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Give them a dollar! — that will heal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Every sorrow a slave can feel.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Scores for the master and one for his tool, —<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Thus is followed the Golden Rule<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />That reads, " To others I 'll do what I see<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Will bring the most money to mine and me. "</div>
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Sadly they follow them, one and all,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Till none are left in the farthest stall.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The Play is over; the farewells said;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />The curtain dropped and the actors fled;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And the stars shine out, and the breeze goes by,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Sweet with the bloom of the fruit-trees nigh.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />A hundred cabins are dark and still,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And the wind and the moonlight may work their will,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />For those who sat by the open door<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Will never return to their shelter more,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Nor dance on the lawn when day is past,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Nor sleep by their fathers' graves at last.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />But this is nothing; their master paid<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />For all the ruin and wreck he made;<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Each had a dollar! and that will heal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Every sorrow a slave can feel.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Scores for the master and one for his tool, —<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Thus he followed the Golden Rule<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />That reads, " To others I 'll do what I see<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Will bring the most money to mine and me. "</div>
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God of the Weak and the Poor! how long<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Shall their cries be drowned in the victor's song,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And body and brain and heart be sold<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />For the white man's ease and the white man's gold?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Hast Thou not heard them? Dost Thou not say<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />There shall come, at the last, a grander Play,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When Thy searching eye shall the actors see,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />And Love the coin of the realm shall be?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />Woe to those who 've but gold that day<br style="box-sizing: border-box;" /><br style="box-sizing: border-box;" />When vengeance is Thine, and Thou wilt repay!</div>
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Many parents at the border are still desperately waiting to be reunited with their children.</div>
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https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/separated-parents-too-grief-stricken-to-seek-asylum-experts-say_us_5b379974e4b08c3a8f6ad5d9</div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954942158357353229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426509702019838062.post-23280893588976964252018-06-25T23:22:00.001-07:002018-06-25T23:54:53.626-07:00FAMILY REUNIFICATIONS HERE AND ABROAD<br />
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 106%;">“Don’t separate us. Don’t let us in, but
don’t rip us apart.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> So </span>said <a href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-father-separated-deported-el-salvador-20180623-story.html" target="_blank">Arnovis Guidos Portillo</a> who was deported to El Salvador without his 6 year old daughter, Meybellin,
who he has not seen in 26 days.</span></div>
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<span style="background: white; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 106%;">In light of the need to urgently reunite
these families, should we consider something akin to the milk carton missing
kids campaign?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You may remember that
ingenious way in which law enforcement attempted to find missing kids by
putting their pictures on milk cartons?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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and have their faces on a continuing loop on a dedicated TV channel so that
their parents could watch, see and identify their children?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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about 2013, the British government has been carrying out an immigration policy which is at
odds with its colonial past.</span><span style="background-position: 0px 0px; outline: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease;"><span style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 106%;"> </span><span style="background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; outline: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease;">British officials have been quietly deporting or denying benefits to long
term residents referred to as the Windrush generation –Caribbean migrants who
came to Britain in the mid 20</span><sup style="background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; outline: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease;">th</sup><span style="background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; outline: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease;"> century to help rebuild post war Britain, to
study or to find employment. They were called the Windrush generation
because many arrived on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrEeY8BUAEg" style="background-position-x: 0px; background-position-y: 0px; outline: none; transition: all 0.17s ease;" target="_blank"><span style="color: #fead01; text-decoration-line: none;">SS Empire Windrush</span></a> in 1948.</span></span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 0px; font-size: 12pt; outline: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease;">The citizenship of these British residents until these last few years had
never been questioned. They worked.</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 0px; font-size: 12pt; outline: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease;"> </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 0px; font-size: 12pt; outline: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease;">They bought homes. They raised families. They paid their
taxes. They received their benefits and most importantly, they contributed much
to British society. </span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 0px; font-size: 12pt; outline: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease;">Then without warning, a
new immigration policy required them to produce citizenship papers.</span><span style="background-color: white; background-position: 0px 0px; font-size: 12pt; outline: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease;"> </span></div>
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policy has been publicly disavowed, many of these cases are still to be
resolved. At the same time, the British government announced last week that they would fund annual celebrations for a national Windrush Day “to recognise
and honour the enormous contribution of those who arrived between 1948-71.”</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Friday, June 23 was, in fact, the anniversary.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Celebrations
and <a href="https://www.bl.uk/press-releases/2018/may/windrush-songs-in-a-strange-land-opens-at-the-british-library" target="_blank">commemorations</a> are important--especially in the Caribbean where Professor
Hilary Robertson Hickling of the University of West Indies and the <a href="http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/latestnews/National_library_to_mount_Windrush_exhibition?profile=1228" target="_blank">National Library of Jamaica</a> have mounted an
exhibit on the Windrush migrants.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 106%;">Thanks too
to <i><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/21/its-terrible-how-windrush-row-turned-one-mans-life-upside-down" target="_blank">The Guardian</a></i> newspaper and writers like Emma Caroline Lewis of <i>Global Voices </i>and<i> <a href="https://petchary.wordpress.com/2018/06/19/on-windrush-concerns-texan-cages-and-a-racist-census-a-terrible-world/" target="_blank">Petchary's Blog</a></i> for highlighting their contributions and keeping this story in
the news. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 106%;">Now in this <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/19/world/europe/meghan-markle-prince-harry-wedding.html?mtrref=annecbailey.blogspot.com&gwh=DF3A8CF703F320E255D056B53956EDDC&gwt=pay" target="_blank">new royal era</a>, we await
the resolution of <b>all</b> the Windrush cases--the restoration of all their
rights as British citizens and the reunification of their families.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<a href="https://www.amazon.com/Weeping-Time-Largest-Auction-American/dp/1316643484" target="_blank">The Weeping Time: Memory of the Largest Slave Auction in American History</a>(Cambridge University Press, 2017)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954942158357353229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426509702019838062.post-62591537417887663652018-06-16T19:09:00.000-07:002018-06-19T22:41:56.542-07:00 Keeping Families Together: Who we are vs. Who we were June 16, 2018<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">On May 29,
Dora * was pulled over by the police in a routine traffic stop in Albany, New
York. Never did she imagine that in spite of the fact that she has a valid work
permit, no criminal record and is a law abiding taxpayer that she would that
evening be sent to jail.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Furthermore,
she would be separated from her two children who had traveling with her in the
car.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Her
immigration status was “pending” and she regularly reported to an immigration
office in Buffalo. Maybe it was her accent or the fact that she recently missed one appointment, the policeman called ICE (the US Immigration
and Customs Enforcement) and they sent her to the county jail first,
then to a detention center.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For 48
hours, she could not make contact with anyone –not her mother, not a lawyer, no
one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Her mother, Mary*, who is
advocating for her says: “They can ship you anywhere they want because it is
federal (jurisdiction);<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You have no
access to your relatives.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And in fact,
her daughter, Dora, was not allowed phone calls for the first three days of her
detention.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately, she had been able to call an aunt who came and picked up her kids, but they too had no contact with their
mother for several days since the beginning of this incident. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Their
grandmother is now doing everything she can to unify this family. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I said it
before in a previous post," <a href="http://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2018/06/where-are-children-weeping-time-then.html" target="_blank">#Where are the children</a>", and I will say it again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is not
who we are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I am a US
citizen and have been for many years. I am also an immigrant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I
came to New York City from Jamaica when I was 12 with my mother and my sixteen year old
brother.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> We came
here at a time when things were very difficult in Jamaica. Many people were
leaving, not necessarily because they wanted to, but because things were very
difficult politically and economically too. We came legally and stayed here
legally though our status was for many years “in progress” as my mother’s place
of employment was our sponsor. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I remember our
first days here.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was wide-eyed at this
place called New York City. The big buildings, the bright lights, the hustle
and bustle on the streets- a far cry from my native Jamaica yet fascinating in
a different way. I remember I hadn’t wanted to leave<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jamaica. I had just completed my first year
of secondary school and was looking forward to the next. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That next year, however, would be spent first
with extended family, then second with our sponsor in these unfamiliar surroundings.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The one
thing that kept me going was my family.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>My mother and brother were “home,” and so I could reason that I hadn’t
really left home. I brought home with me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is in this context that I cannot imagine what it would have been like
to have been separated from the only two people who made a big city less daunting.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thankfully,
I did not have to imagine such things because up until a few weeks ago, the
policy regarding immigrants was always to keep families together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Immigration was a civil matter, not a
criminal one.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Previously, families who
crossed the border seeking asylum, for example, were allowed to stay together
in shelters until final decisions were made regarding their status.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That does
not mean that the system is not broken. That does not mean that urgent
change is not needed. Certainly, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle have been
talking about this for a long time, but sadly, it has been mostly talk. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Immigration reform has not happened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In that void
has arisen these knee jerk reactions which have led us to family separations –
whether it is DACA kids who were brought here by their parents as children, those
fleeing violence and seeking asylum at the border or even those immigrants who
have legal rights to be here but are wading through the process like Dora. <o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As a
citizen, I am proud of the fact that in the face of an often confusing and burdensome
situation, prior administrations, both Democrat and Republican, did their best
NOT to separate children from their parents.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>They worked towards the most humane solutions, albeit stop -gap
solutions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">As a result,
children and families were not traumatized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Those who developed previous policies remembered that as a country we
have championed human rights abroad and thus have drawn lines in the sand
regarding certain actions. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Because that
is NOT who we are.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It may have
been who we were as I shared in my book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Weeping-Time-Largest-Auction-American/dp/1316643484" target="_blank">The Weeping Time</a>,</i> which documented the harsh and devastating reality of
antebellum slave auctions, but it is not who we are now and that is what matters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I truly believe that one day America could be remembered not so much for its computers or
its robots or its driverless cars, but for its commitment to <a href="http://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-america-that-raised-me.html" target="_blank">human rights</a>. It is our choice.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Dora and her
two children deserve to stay together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Whatever
is decided about their future, it is a future which they must be allowed to face
together.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is the only humane thing
to do from any standpoint, but particularly from the standpoint of a nation
that has longed prided itself as a champion of human rights.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">*Actual
names are not used but if anyone is in a position to help this family, please
send me an email at </span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="mailto:freedomlives4@yahoo.com">freedomlives4@yahoo.com</a></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">In a divided
country and in a divided world, I encountered an oasis this week.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> I had the pleasure of being in the
studio audience of the daytime television program, The View.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The View, created by journalist Barbara
Walters in 1997, is a TV program which brings together female co-hosts of
different ages and backgrounds to discuss issues of the day.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fresh off
her moving and insightful commencement speech at her alma mater, Binghamton
University, co-host, Sunny Hostin, invited me to watch a taping of the
show.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In her speech a couple weeks ago, she said many memorable
things, but one thing stood out the most.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span> Through her experience with The View, she shared that she has a fresh new perspective on listening to various points of view.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She has also learned to treasure the
relationships that she has with these women even when they fundamentally
disagree. It was a challenge for her, and as I listened, a challenge for me too.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sitting in
that audience this week, I could see exactly what she meant, and in fact, saw
more than that.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> W</span>hat these women are doing every day is
exactly what this country needs right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Led by the indomitable Whoopi Goldberg, these women—Sunny Hostin, Megan
McCain, Joy Behar and Sara Haines---debated everything from whether it was appropriate for a teacher to have called a student a class clown to whether President Clinton’s affair with Monica Lewinsky in the
White House set an awful precedent.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>All
of the women had strong views on each topic. Furthermore, no one
seemed fearful to express themselves. At the same time, they did not have
to agree.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The only thing they needed to
agree on was HOW they would speak to each other, which was, in a word,
respectfully.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I came away
impressed with the fact that they have created a space in which people can
speak openly yet with civility at a time when there seems to be very few public
spaces like this.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If anything, there is
pressure to think one way or another and precious little attempt at listening
to others.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">At the same
time, it is clear that these women have dearly held
beliefs.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This is not an exercise in
cultural or moral relativism; not at all. The View, however, does model for us a
public space in which views can be shared and heard without recrimination, name
calling and the like.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span> I particularly
like the fact that when these women occasionally err and do not follow
their own dictum,(as would anyone) they are brave enough to apologize publicly. We don't see much of that these days.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Finally, it
is apparent that they all have various pet projects or areas in which they
serve the public, but in my mind, what they do every day is a public
service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Modeling how we can be a diverse
community and create community at the same time is a public service.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We need
this right now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We need these voices
right now. We need this room with a view.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><b>Puerto Rico
update</b><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2017/10/the-storm-is-passing-over-and-puerto.html" target="_blank">Since I last wrote about Puerto Rico</a> and the devastation after Hurricane Maria, many have been
concerned about the inattention to what the American citizens in Puerto Rico
are facing on the ground. <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/harvard-study-estimates-thousands-died-in-puerto-rico-due-to-hurricane-maria/2018/05/29/1a82503a-6070-11e8-a4a4-c070ef53f315_story.html?noredirect=on&utm_term=.5f4ed196461d" target="_blank">A Harvard University study</a> estimates that thousands have died because of the hurricane. As such, there has been much more
devastation than has been previously reported.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #111111; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“4,645
deaths can be linked to the hurricane and its immediate aftermath, making the
storm far deadlier than previously thought. Official estimates have placed the
number of dead at 64, a count that has drawn sharp criticism from experts and
local residents and spurred the government to order an independent review that
has yet to be completed.”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Many of
these deaths occurred due to lack of emergency services or medical attention
for those in regions most affected by Hurricane Maria. Puerto Rico and Puerto Ricans are resilient, but this situation still needs urgent attention.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My book, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Weeping-Time-Largest-Auction-American/dp/1316643484" target="_blank">The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave auction in American History</a></i>, (Cambridge University Press, 2017) opens
with the story of an engaged couple separated from each other on the auction
block. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">On March 2
and 3, 1859,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Pierce Mease Butler of the
Butler Plantation estates in the Georgia Sea Islands sold 436 men, women, and
children, including 30 babies, to buyers and speculators from New York to
Louisiana.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Slave auctions were long a part of the fabric of
American life, but on the eve of the Civil War, this unprecedented sale was
noteworthy not only for its size, but because of the fact that the Gullah
Geechee slaves of Butler Island, Georgia, had generally not been sold on the
open market. </span><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">They were a tight-knit community with norms, values
and customs that were greatly influenced by their West and Central African heritage.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This past
year, when I have given presentations on my book, I often begin by reading the
words of the 23-year-old cotton hand, Jeffrey,<span style="color: red;"> </span>to
his new owner begging him to purchase his love, Dorcas, chattel number 278:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I loves
Dorcas, young Mas’r; I loves her well an’ true; she says she loves me, and I
know she does; de good Lord knows I love her better than I loves any one in de
wide world – never can love another woman half as well.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Please buy Dorcas, Mas’r.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We’re be good sarvants to you long as we
live. We’re be married right soon, young Mas’r, and de chillum will be healthy
and strong, Mas’r and dey’ll be good sarvants, too. Please buy Dorcas, youn
Mas’r. We loves each other a heap—do really true, Mas’r…<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Every single
time, it is heart wrenching to read those words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Every single time, I have to take a minute
before I get back to presenting on the book. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is never
lost on me the human cost of slavery. It is never lost on me the trauma that
families endured.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I always
begin that way not to be sensational but to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">objectively</i>
capture what slavery really entailed because the raw emotion of such routine
separations was that horrible and was that dreadful; of that there can be no
doubt. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">There is no
getting around it.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">What else would one
feel when separated from a loved one?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thankfully,
in this auction that I have spent 10 years studying, though there were no cases
of young children separated from their parents, it was it no less heart
wrenching. Furthermore, we know that this did indeed happen quite routinely in
the period of slavery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Listen to
some of those voices here.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">From <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Help-Me-Find-My-People/dp/1470847299" target="_blank">Kate Drumgoold</a>, enslaved child whose mother was sold on the eve of the Civil War:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My mother
was sold at Richmond, Virginia and a gentleman bought her who lived in Georgia
and we did not know she was sold until she was gone; and the saddest thought to
me was to know which way she was gone, and I used to go outside and look up to
see if there was anything that would direct me, and I saw a clear place in the
sky, and it seemed to me the way she had gone, and I watched it three and a
half years, not knowing what that meant, and it was there the whole time mother
was gone.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And from the
ex -slave and renown statesman, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Narrative-Life-Frederick-Douglass/dp/0486284999/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1528029053&sr=1-1&keywords=The+Life+of+Frederick+Douglas&dpID=51NnYBHXgKL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch" target="_blank">Frederick Douglass</a>:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My mother
and I were separated when I was but an infant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is a common custom in the part of Maryland from which I ran away, to
part children from their mothers at a very early age.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I have
always felt that the legacy of slavery had a great impact on the present, but I
have often argued that we may see certain patterns or themes reminiscent of the
past but no straight line. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I never
expected to draw a straight line between anything that America did then and
what it does now, yet the voices of immigrant mothers tell another story.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here below is an affidavit of an <a href="https://twitter.com/chrislhayes/status/1000141225800945665" target="_blank">immigrant mother seeking asylum</a> at the border being separated from her child:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My son was
crying as I put him in the seat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I did
not even have a chance to try to comfort my son, because the officers slammed
the door shut as soon as he was in his seat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I was crying too. I cry even now when I think about that moment when the
border officers took my son away</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is a scene in the modern day of a child being ripped from the arms of their parent. It does not belong here in a country which has long since progressed to a new
understanding of civil rights and human rights; a country that has, in fact,
<i>led</i> the world in the development of such rights.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For those of
us who love this place, who call this place home, (no matter where we were
born,) I pray we will stand up and advocate for these families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I pray
we will stand up for the best that this country represents, not the worst.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For as I
show in my work, alongside the devastation of the auction block, there was also
the Underground Railroad. Alongside the slave master or the overseer, there was
the abolitionist.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It is not today that
these opposing forces have been in conflict; it is not a new thing, but on
Emancipation Day, January 1, 1865 to be exact—a new day literally dawned.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">America
started out on a new journey – the journey to reconcile the high ideals set out
in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Declaration of Independence</i>
and in <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Constitution</i> with its
reality on the ground. It set out on a journey that led to the passing of the
13<sup>th</sup> Amendment which officially ended slavery and gave citizenship
to African Americans who had been enslaved. This new journey was to have many
fits and starts, but the 1950’s and 60’s Civil rights movement gave it new life
and extended that life and these rights to many others who had also been
excluded: Jews, Asians, Latinos, women, immigrants from non-European countries
and the like.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That journey
brings us to today.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">We can’t go
back.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Some of us,
perhaps soon more of us, will agree again with that incomparable document, </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">The Declaration of Independence</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">: “All
men are created equal and they are endowed by their Creator with certain
unalienable rights.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> I was born</span> in Jamaica,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>a former colony of Great Britain. When I was
growing up, I did not really understand what that meant.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I knew only that we spoke English and Jamaican patois but English was the official language. I knew too that we learned a lot about British
history<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>in and out of school. I knew we
celebrated British holidays like Boxing Day – the day I was born.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Boxing day is the day after Christmas which
was traditionally celebrated like a second Christmas day, particularly for household staff in England who had to work on the day itself. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Growing
up in Jamaica, I had no knowledge of the the specifics of this history and I suspect it was the same for many
around me. We just knew that Boxing day was a holiday and it meant additional
time with family since all places of business were closed. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>These things were just traditional and they
spoke to us of home.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Likewise, we ate
elaborately decorated buns at Easter and rich wine soaked fruit cake at
Christmas—again because that is what the British used to do and that is legacy
they left; that is the legacy we kept.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That too spoke to
us of home.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">So when<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> hundreds of Caribbean residents</span> embarked the <a href="http://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2018/04/the-windrush-generation-can-we-erase.html" target="_blank">MV Empire Windrush</a> on May 28 1948, they got on that ship as British
subjects—as knowledgeable about Britain as anyone who lived in the “mother
country." Some of them had even fought alongside Britons in World War II.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Certainly, they had literally learned more
about Britain than they had about Jamaica or Africa or anywhere else for that
matter.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Noted African author, Ngugi wa Thiong'o in his memoir, <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">In the House of the<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Interpreter</i>, writes eloquently about that phenomenon.
As another person with a British colonial legacy, in his case, Kenya, he wrote about going to an elite school called Alliance where he learned much about Britain but very little about his place of birth.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And so for
these and other reasons, Britain was not an unfamiliar place for these African
descended Jamaicans and other Caribbean peoples.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They were not strangers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So much of their lives had been influenced by
England that it might only have been the weather that was unfamiliar.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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But they forged on.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They built a life
there and called Britain home in a new way. They became nurses, bus drivers,
railroad engineers. Others laid railroad tracks, and still others took care of
the elderly. They bought homes and settled down. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Yet now, since
a new policy was put in place in 2013, this Windrush generation, many of whom
are now seniors, have been asked to leave. <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/15/why-the-children-of-windrush-demand-an-immigration-amnesty" target="_blank">They have been asked to pack their bags</a>
and find another home because Britain –the Britain that they helped to rebuild
after the ravages of war – is<a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/21/its-terrible-how-windrush-row-turned-one-mans-life-upside-down" target="_blank"> no longer to be their home</a>.</span></div>
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this situation is now to be resolved but when?</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">And what about those who are already in
Barbados and Jamaica</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">in a kind of no
man’s land of citizenship? Will their situation also be sorted out?</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Will they be able to come back to Britain as
citizens if they choose or go back and forth as they please?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Who will compensate them not only financially but emotionally for that
sense of being ripped from their home because of new and more pressing
political agendas?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Even if and when all
is rectified, will they ever feel again like they are truly home? To be clear, up until recently, for a number of Caribbean descended nationals, returning to the Caribbean was a goal -- but it was their choice to return to the Caribbean, not because they were being deported.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">These are
the questions I am asking as I think about the idea of home and what the legacy
of colonialism really means; how that legacy disrupts ideas of home in the past
and as it turns out, also in the present. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But the good
news is that it is not too late to make things right.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The British Home Secretary apologized and promised on
March 30 that the policy would be overturned and that </span><span style="background: white; border: none 1.0pt; color: black; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; padding: 0in;">amends would be made in two weeks. I was very glad to hear about this commitment and hope that indeed all benefits of <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/25/windrush-scandal-you-dont-need-that-passport-they-said" target="_blank">citizenship will be restored</a> to every one of these British citizens. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">As of
this writing, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/may/25/number-of-windrush-cases-passes-5000-mark" target="_blank">many are still waiting for the promised change. </a> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I remain
hopeful, however, that the office of the British Home Secretary will honor their word. </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">A little universal thing
called home.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It truly matters.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">May Britain <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/19/world/europe/meghan-markle-prince-harry-wedding.html" target="_blank">in this new era</a> also remember its
history, and in so doing, set an example for the world.</span></div>
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Easter Bun and Christmas cake, Jamaican holiday traditions<br />
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By Mrudit161187 [CC BY-SA 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], from Wikimedia Commons<br />
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Anne C. Bailey<br />
Author of <a href="http://www.sams247.com/jamaican-recipes_jamaican-easter-bun-recipe.aspx" target="_blank">The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History.</a>(Cambridge University Press, 2017)<br />
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Selected Sources:<br />
Articles by Sarah Marsh, Amelia Gentleman and Josh Halliday of <i>The Guardian.</i></div>
<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954942158357353229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426509702019838062.post-24902110957862486102018-05-06T14:30:00.000-07:002018-05-27T07:23:51.518-07:00“Slavery was not a choice but listening to Kanye West is."<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">First of
all, I want to thank Kanye West for reminding us this week that money will not
buy you wisdom.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The good book says: “</span><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Wisdom <i>is</i> the principal thing; <i>therefore</i> get
wisdom: and with all your getting, get understanding. (</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; font-size: 14pt;">Proverbs 4:7)</span></div>
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<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">These words could never be more true than they are in
the current moment when the nation is divided and there are numerous troubling
situations here and around the world – sporadic terrorism, global refugee crisis, gendered violence, school shootings and the ever widening gap between rich and poor.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>People are literally searching for wisdom, trying to understand the moment we are in.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In the midst of all this, Mr. West has weighed in
with the incredible statement,“Slavery was a choice.” To that he added
something about mental slavery as if one was not a consequence of the other as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kOFu6b3w6c0" target="_blank">Bob Marley</a> tried to tell us<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">. </span>Many have responded quickly and vociferously
but<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>none better than Russ
Bengston who said: </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; font-size: 14pt;">“Slavery wasn’t a choice but listening to Kanye is.”</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was not
going to weigh in on this controversy when one of my students while handing in
her final paper just assumed I would have something to say. After all, one
of the questions on the final was about the public memory of slavery.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Some have speculated that it was a publicity stunt;
West was trying to create some buzz for his upcoming album.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others say he is unwell or perhaps still
grieving the death of his mother. If the latter is true, my<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>hope is that this will not be another Michael
Jackson or Prince scenario where someone brilliant truly needs help, but
instead of getting help, is encouraged to continue down a dangerous path.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We know the statistics for young black men in the "hood." <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Color-Law-Forgotten-Government-Segregated/dp/1631492853" target="_blank">In hoods created by Federal policies</a> accompanied by a lack of jobs and well resourced schools, <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3052342/" target="_blank">black men die at rates higher</a> than their
counterparts.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Why, I often wonder, should some rich black men at the top of this society also die young?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If they can not live to be octogenarians, who
can?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">So if he is unwell, my hope and prayer is that THIS
time, people around him will stop profiting from his freefall and get him the help
he needs.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If, however, he
has said these things consciously and intentionally, may we as a public 1) exercise “free thought” and not
listen to his music or buy his apparel or sneakers because freedom works both ways; 2)</span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; font-size: 14pt;"> read all the books and
articles that he decided he did not need to read because his money somehow
bought him wisdom.</span></div>
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<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">If we are truly seeking wisdom, then I would recommend we take a look below at
this very partial list of books to read and places to visit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Others have good lists too. Maybe I will call
this the KW Slavery Reading List.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Since the
slave narrators of the 19<sup>th</sup> century and W.E.B Dubois in the early 20<sup>th</sup>
century, we have had over one hundred and fifty years of scholars, writers and musicians “dropping knowledge,” as they say.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> Many struggled and still struggle today to tell to the full story of America and of the Black Atlantic. </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Half-Has-Never-Been-Told/dp/0465049664/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1525632740&sr=1-1&keywords=the+half+has+never+been+told+by+edward+baptist&dpID=51FKgRLs2TL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch" target="_blank">And still, the half has not been told</a>.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And still, there is so much more to learn. </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; font-size: 14pt;">I, myself, am still on that journey. </span></div>
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<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Finally, I have spent most of my life trying to honor
in death those who were not honored in life. </span><span style="background-color: #fdfeff; font-size: 14pt;">Those who suffered so that I could
have the life I live now, which while not perfect, is not a life of unending deprivation
and servitude.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Those who were sold on
the auction block and separated from their families through no choice of their
own. </span></div>
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<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Those who were <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/178657.Remembering_Slavery" target="_blank">blinded for seeking an education and learning to read the Bible</a> through no choice of their own.</span><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></div>
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who attempted<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to run away or to fight and
were severely punished or killed through
no choice of their own. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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schools and churches, fought wars and nobly served their country, created a culture
that has influenced the world and whose descendants continue to do the same.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Slavery was not a choice, but listening to Kanye West
is.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Get wisdom and as you acquire it, get understanding.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">BOOKS TO READ<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">My Face is Black is true: Callie House and the Struggle for Ex-Slave Reparations,</span></i><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Mary Frances
Berry<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Arn’t I a Woman: Female Slaves in the Plantation South</span></i><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, Deborah Gray White<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Slave’s Cause: A
History of Abolition</span></i><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, Manisha Sinha<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Charleston Syllabus</span></i><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, eds. Keisha
Blain, Chad Williams, Kidada Williams.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Medical Bondage: Race, Gender and the Origins of American Gynecology</span></i><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, Deirdre Cooper Owens<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">"The History of Mary Prince as a Historical Document of Slavery in
Antigua and the British Empire," in</span> <em><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; padding: 0in;">Antigua
& Barbuda International Literary Festival Magazine</span></em><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, no. 2</span>.,
Natasha Lightfoot<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Closer to Freedom: Enslaved Women and Everyday Resistance in the Plantation South</span></i><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">, Stephanie Camp</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Bound in Wedlock:
Slave and Free Black Marriage in the 19<sup>th</sup> century,</span></i><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Tera Hunter<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The Half has never
been told: Slavery and the Making of American Capitalism</span></i><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, Edward E. Baptist<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Classic Slave Narratives</span></i><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, ed. Henry
Louis Gates Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The Souls of Black Folk</span></i><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> and other
books by W.E.B. Dubois<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Remembering Slavery</span></i><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, Ira Berlin<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Black Families in Slavery and in Freedom</span></i><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, Herbert Gutman<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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(compilation of slave narratives)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom</span></i><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, Catherine
Clinton<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<em><span style="background: white; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A Slave No More: Two Men Who Escaped to Freedom, Including
their Narratives of Emancipation</span></em><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, David Blight<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Revolutions</span></i><span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">, <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><em><span style="background: white; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<em><span style="background: white; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt; font-style: normal; line-height: 107%;">Rashauna Johnson.<o:p></o:p></span></em></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Ebony-Ivy-Troubled-Americas-Universities/dp/1596916818/ref=tmm_hrd_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&sr=&qid="><span style="background: white; color: windowtext;">Ebony and Ivy: Race, Slavery,
and the Troubled History of America's Universities</span></a>,</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Craig Wilder<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Soul-Inside-Antebellum-Slave-Market/dp/0674005392"><span style="background: white; color: windowtext;">Soul by Soul: Life Inside the
Antebellum Slave Market</span></a></span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><span style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; float: none; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: start; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;">, Walter Johnson<span style="background: white;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Liberties Lost:
Caribbean Indigenous Societies and Slave systems</span></i><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, Hilary Beckles and
Verene Shepherd<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>The Slave Ship: A Human History</i>, Marcus Rediker</span></div>
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<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Forever Free: The
Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction</span></i><span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">. Eric Foner<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.carnegielibrary.org/staff-picks/new-books-black-history/"><span style="color: windowtext;">https://www.carnegielibrary.org/staff-picks/new-books-black-history/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.aboutgreatbooks.com/topics/history/books-about-slavery-nonfiction/"><span style="color: windowtext;">https://www.aboutgreatbooks.com/topics/history/books-about-slavery-nonfiction/</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://www.slaveryfacts.org/best-books-about-slavery<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/seven-notable-new-books-on-slavery_us_58b2e82de4b0658fc20f9698<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">While reading or after, I highly recommend taking
trips to various places in the African Diaspora:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Cape Coast Castle in Ghana, Goree Island in
Senegal, (slave ports), Egypt, Kenya, Jamaica, Trinidad, Martinique, Brazil, Britain, France and so many more.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: #fdfeff; font-size: 18.6667px;">Bob Marley and so many many more that I hope to share in another post. Dear readers, please also feel free to add to this list. It is, by definition, incomplete and a work in progress.</span></div>
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<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> Anne C. Bailey</o:p></span><br />
<span style="background: #FDFEFF; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p>Author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Weeping-Time-Largest-Auction-American/dp/1316643484" target="_blank">The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History</a> </o:p></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954942158357353229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426509702019838062.post-54156631693751714862018-04-30T22:05:00.000-07:002018-04-30T22:07:13.160-07:00The Windrush Generation: Can we erase our past?<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">In the last few
years, since about 2013, Britain has been carrying out an immigration
policy which is at odds with its colonial past.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">British officials have been quietly deporting or denying
benefits to long term residents referred to as the Windrush generation –Caribbean
migrants who came to Britain in the mid 20</span><sup>th</sup><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> century to help rebuild
post war Britain, to study or to find employment. They were called the Windrush generation because many arrived on the <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrEeY8BUAEg" target="_blank">SS Empire Windrush</a> in 1948.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">The citizenship of these
British residents until these last few years had never been questioned. They
worked.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They bought homes. They raised
families. They paid their taxes. They received their benefits and most
importantly, they contributed much to British society. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Then without
warning, a new immigration policy required them to produce citizenship
papers.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/apr/15/why-the-children-of-windrush-demand-an-immigration-amnesty" style="font-size: 14pt;" target="_blank">The problem was that many of these people – most over 50- had never needed citizenship papers because they were British subjects when they arrived in Britain.</a></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">If we take, for example, the history of Jamaica, we see this clearly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jamaica was colonized by the British in 1655
and did not become an independent nation until 1962.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As such, any Jamaican who traveled to
Britain in the 1940's, 50’s or 60’s was a colonial subject – not a foreigner, not an
immigrant but someone who had a relationship with what used to be called the “mother
country.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What is more, they were <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">invited</i> by Britain to come.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They did not arrive on British soil illegally.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Well time
evolves and relationships change,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>but we can not erase history. Those people who came to Britain in this era never needed papers before yet were now being asked to produce them.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sadly, a number of these men and women, many
of whom are seniors, after doing their best to make their case to immigration
officials, accepted their fates and returned to an island they did
not know.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They suffered in silence
until their circumstances became public.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>It is only since reporters started asking questions that they have
shared their story.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So many have said, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2018/apr/27/windrush-citizens-its-like-having-your-world-torn-apart-video" target="_blank">“it’s like having your world torn apart.”</a> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They have
faced deportation, family separations, loss of medical and housing benefits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Thankfully, there is a silver lining to this story. </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">The
Guardian</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> and the international press have made an important difference here. The </span><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/apr/29/amber-rudd-resigns-as-home-secretary-after-windrush-scandal" style="font-size: 14pt;" target="_blank">British Home Secretary,</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> as of this writing, apologized and has now
resigned over the matter.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Shortly before
resigning, she committed to a complete turnaround.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In fact, she promised that her office would resolve
all cases and also give compensation in the next two weeks. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I am very
glad to hear about this commitment and hope that indeed all benefits of
citizenship will be restored to every one of these British citizens without
delay.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">This story is of considerable
interest to me as a dual citizen, native of Jamaica and a scholar/writer in the field of
African Diaspora Studies. In fact, I was all prepared to weigh in on this
controversy from a somewhat distant scholarly angle when my cousin, on my
mother’s side, actress and teacher Abigail Ramsay, shared a post commemorating
her mother’s birthday on facebook. In a moment, I was brought back to my almost
forgotten reality that the Windrush generation included </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">my own relatives</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">—my aunt
and uncle who settled in Britain and made it their home and made incalculable contributions
to British society.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Here, Abigail says
it best:</span></div>
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another beautiful face of the Windrush generation.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">She
moved to London in the 1960s to study nursing then received additional
qualifications at the Great Ormond Hospital for Sick Children and Queen
Charlotte Hospital. It wasn’t until my godmother told me that in all her places
of study, she was top of her class. She never shared her impressive academic
successes and I only heard from my aunt that as a child that she was
exceptionally br<span class="textexposedshow">illiant. To say she is humble is an
understatement.</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">She did share that she would wake up at 4am to study and work.
She somewhat inculcated this discipline in us, although I have miles to go! But
fortunately have opportunities to practice. My drive and indefatigable approach
to the world comes from her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: Helvetica; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">This birthday, she gave me a present. Last year, the world could
not be worse. Her lifetime of hard work not only enabled me to get my
apartment, but helped me out of an absolutely miserable situation by supporting
me during my unemployment. Now, as I am embracing extraordinary opportunities, (as
a Fulbright Fellow in Jamaica) I give repeated thanks for having a brilliant
mother with foresight, discipline, wisdom, and strength of sacrifice. I only
hope to live up to her example.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">So today I, too, salute Vinton Isoline Ramsay, my Aunt
Joy, an extraordinary woman of African descent and a beautiful face of the
Windrush generation.</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">She is an inspiration to me and to </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">many.</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">She and so many others have given so much.</span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">May the country to which they have given their labor and their love return the same.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Vinton Isoline Ramsay of the Windrush Generation and Great Ormond Hospital</span><br />
<span style="background-color: white; font-size: 18.6667px;"><span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;">Nigel Cox [CC BY-SA 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons</span></span><br />
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<span style="color: #1d2129; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">For more stories of other members of the Windrush generation, see Hilary Robertson Hickling's <a href="https://www.amazon.co.uk/That-Time-Foriegn-Hilary-Robertson-Hickling/dp/1910553557" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">That Time in Foreign.</a><i> </i>(Hansib Pres)</span></span></div>
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Anne C. BaileyAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954942158357353229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426509702019838062.post-80788989986285254732018-04-22T07:22:00.001-07:002018-04-22T13:58:25.677-07:00Frantz Fanon and Honoring the Land<br />
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<b><span style="background: white; color: #444444; font-size: 14.0pt;">“For a colonized people the most
essential value, because the most concrete, is first and foremost the land: the
land which will bring them bread and, above all, dignity.” </span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Two weeks
ago, I was honored to be a part of an international conference in Kingston
Jamaica examining the legacy of Fanon with particular respect to postcolonial
Caribbean and African societies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The conference
was mounted by CARIMENSA, in collaboration with McGill University, the University of West Indies and
the Jamaica Psychiatric Association and the theme was “Mental Illness and Violence
and the Delusion of Freedom: Exploring the Legacy of Frantz Fanon."</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fanon’s
words particularly resonate with me because I have long been an avid lover of
the land—the actual land of Jamaica and all that it means today and yesterday.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Yesterday,
it was literally the bread of those who colonized Jamaica –first the Spanish,
then the English.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The slave trade which
brought Africans to Jamaica and elsewhere in the Caribbean, as Eric Williams
said, helped to make Britain the industrialized nation that it is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In the 18<sup>th</sup> century, fully one third
of Britain’s GNP came from profits from slavery.( See his book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Capitalism-Slavery-Eric-Williams/dp/0807844888/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1524406731&sr=1-1&keywords=capitalism+and+slavery+eric+williams&dpID=51rsi4-TAGL&preST=_SY291_BO1,204,203,200_QL40_&dpSrc=srch" target="_blank">Capitalism and Slavery</a>)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So this land, not just its beautiful beaches, but its interior with all its rich fauna and flora, in the past made all the difference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Perhaps that
is why I have been so preoccupied with the land itself.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>If, I have reasoned, it was good enough back then to be the bread and butter for others, why can it not be so again for
independent Jamaica and other independent nations in the Caribbean?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Notwithstanding
the benefits but also constraints of globalization, it seems as if there SHOULD
be a way to make that land, as Fanon says, bring bread and also dignity.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">For that
reason and others, Green Team International last spring planted 250 mahogany
suckers on St. Mary's Peace Farm and Park in Oracabessa, Jamaica.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The trees were donated by the Jamaica Forestry
Department as a part of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>their worthy
effort at reforestation of the island.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jamaica is
well known for its beaches, but its countryside is equally resplendent with a
huge variety of tropical flowers and trees.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Experts say that over 27% of the plants in Jamaica can be found nowhere
else in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That in my mind, is a
national treasure, but like any treasure, it has be nurtured and it has be
safeguarded for future generations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Planting
those trees was a way to honor the land and its legacy. Planting those trees
was a way to give back – not just reap its benefits—but to replenish.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Planting
those trees was a way to honor those dishonored ancestors who worked without
compensation, who labored without credit.<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Planting
those trees was a way<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>to honor future
generations who in twenty years will walk through Mahogany<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Walk, cut those trees and replenish them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And so the
cycle will begin again—but this time we will have planted in freedom not in
slavery, in peace not in conflict.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The land
will bring us bread from the profits of the lumber and bring us dignity in
honoring our past and our future.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Weeping-Time-Largest-Auction-American/dp/1316643484" target="_blank"><i>The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History</i>.</a>(Cambridge University Press, 2017)</div>
Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954942158357353229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426509702019838062.post-32900913689612647612018-04-09T19:21:00.000-07:002018-04-09T20:13:20.592-07:00Between Syria and Me Redux<br />
This week, Syria is again in the news. It has been about a year since I wrote the piece,<br />
"Between Syria and Me" and I thought it best to republish it in light of the fact that Syrian civil war is now eight years old. I also recently found a letter by a Jamaican citizen, Richard Browne, suggesting that Jamaica open its door to some of the many refugees. Food for thought.<br />
http://www.jamaicaobserver.com/letters/Open-the-gates-to-our-Jamaican-DNA----from-Syria_19226160<br />
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Tragically again this week nerve gas bombs rained down on the Syrian people. I also finished reading Ta Nehisi Coates’ brilliant book,<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Between-World-Me-Ta-Nehisi-Coates/dp/0812993543" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #fead01; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank"><i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;">Between the World and Me</i></a>. <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>At first glance, one might think that the latest horror of the six year old Syrian civil war has nothing to do Coates’ ruminations on the challenges of navigating "race" in <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>America, but nothing could be further from the truth.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span><br />
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Since this war began, Syria is never very far from my mind in a way I am only recently beginning to understand.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Before the civil war, my only connection was through Jamaica.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Growing up in Jamaica, the Syrian Diaspora there is well known and well regarded.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>“Out of many, one people” is the national motto represented on the Coat of Arms and Syrians are an important part of that many.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>They came to Jamaica in the 1860’s and became business owners, manufacturers, leaders and artists.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Up until six years ago, I did not associate Syria with bombs, with refugees, with nerve gas.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Yet this proud and beautiful people are now a byword for loss, displacement, plunder, and genocide.</div>
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Ta Nehisi Coates’ book is also about the legacy of loss and displacement. In his long love letter to his son, he shares with readers how he has navigated this loss between the tough world of his Baltimore ghetto and the world of the Dreamers, as he calls the whitewashed world he saw on his television set as a child.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>The gulf between those worlds is the gulf his son will also have to navigate.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>His book is like the testimony of a refugee<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>-- a refugee in his own country –who is <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>fortunate to live to tell the tale. Between the schools and the streets, he is one of the survivors. He was not killed in mysterious circumstances by police or by gangs in his neighborhood. <a href="http://www.naacp.org/criminal-justice-fact-sheet/" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #fead01; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">He is not in jail</a> like the one in six <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>black men destined to live out all or part of their days<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>in state and federal penal institutions. <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>He lives to tell the tale and his analysis helps not only his heir but others who are heirs to this legacy of slavery and colonialism<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>or other black bodies as he calls them - make sense of it all.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>And more than make of sense of it, celebrate with those who celebrate, mourn with those who mourn.</div>
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Though I had not read his book at the time, these types of books and my own work about African loss and displacement, drew me into the Syrian story.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>It drew me in a very personal way such that by mid January, I decided to mark my birthday by inviting a group of friends to come and hear me read from my latest book about the legacy of slavery and its memory.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>The evening was to be a fundraiser for Aleppo and Syrian refugees.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Instead of a gift, I asked for a donation of $10 or more.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>I had no idea how this would work as it was my first such effort but a couple of friends helped me pull it off. They brought food and much needed chairs so that there would be additional seats in my apartment.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>In all, thirty or so people came including young people and their donations exceeded expectations.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>The money was donated to a charity<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>to directly assist their efforts on behalf of refugees.</div>
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Without fully realizing it, I was already making this connection with their experience, but at the same time, I hadn’t fully assessed the politics of it all.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span> It seemed like a simple proposition – this birthday fundraiser—but as I got into the planning I realized it was not so simple after all.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>I had to take notice of the ongoing debate around me. There were so many different points of view floating around the country. <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Some felt it was OK to give humanitarian aid<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>but did not agree that America should take in Syrian refugees. Others felt certain that America should open its doors as it has to immigrants and refugees in the past and welcome many in.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Still others compared themselves to folks abroad. Hadn’t Germany promised to take almost 800,000?<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Could America do any less?<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>And so the debate continued with some being convinced that if we welcomed refugees from places like Syria, terrorists may well enter in among them.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>In trying to help, we would be hurting ourselves so the argument went.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>I started to have some sense then, that this birthday fundraiser was not like fundraising for baseball equipment for the local Little League. <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>It was not neutral at all but yet made such sense to me.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>For<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>years, I have been teaching and writing about displacement and loss of people of African descent. For years, I have been trying in my own mind to make sense of this loss and the memory of it and the forgetting of it.</div>
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So it was not till I was well into the planning of this little effort that the politics of it all dawned on me but I forged on. <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Perhaps it was just as well because in the process and in the end, I think something beautiful was wrenched from tragedy: those who came together came together regardless of the politics<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>in a remarkable spirit.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>Those who knew each other and those who met for the first time seemed to talk with ease and without effort.<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>With good food and good company, it could have been just another winter weekend but it wasn’t because this group had made a decision to mark my birthday by remembering those who were uncertain of birthdays to come. They had made a decision to consider those lives so far away —men and women <span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>with cares, desires, dreams for their children– as they would consider their own.</div>
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I was glad then but am really glad now that we had that evening – an evening to remember and connect with the losses of others.</div>
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Anne Bailey</div>
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Author, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/African-Voices-Atlantic-Slave-Trade/dp/0807055131" style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; color: #fead01; margin: 0px; outline: none; padding: 0px; text-decoration-line: none; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;" target="_blank">African Voices of the Atlantic Slave Trade</a></div>
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Ta-Nehisi Coates, <i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;">Between the World and Me</i></div>
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Rebecca Tortello, <i style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;">Pieces of the Past:<span style="background: 0px 0px; border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; transition: all 0.17s ease; vertical-align: baseline;"> </span>A Stroll down Jamaica’s Memory Lane</i></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I am so thankful
to my hosts at Georgia Southern University (Armstrong College) for an
opportunity to share my work in Savannah alongside the amazing Gullah Geechee Ring
Shouters.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was honored to give the
third annual Mark Finlay lecture on my book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Weeping-Time-Largest-Auction-American/dp/1316643484" target="_blank"><i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Weeping Time</i>.</a><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Shouters, a singing group that recreates Negro spirituals and other traditional
songs of the old South, really gave the audience a sense of the culture that
was created in the crucible of slavery. They sang several songs including <a href="http://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2018/02/gullah-geechee-community-finally.html" target="_blank">"kumbaya,</a>" which has now been acknowledged to be of Gullah origin.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Below is an excerpt from the chapter of my book, “ More Than Hands:
African Rhythms and Work on the Butler plantations.”</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">The songs of the Shouters are reminiscent of
the boatmen who perhaps enjoyed the most “freedom” as they ferried goods and
people down the river from the mainland in Darien to the Butler island plantation
estates.</span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Fanny
Kemble, the plantation mistress, enjoyed the boatmen’s music and lyrics, even
when they were at her expense. During her visit to the plantation, they gaily
sang of her “wire waist,” in reference to her slim figure. They sang too of the
haughtiness of her three- year- old daughter. “Little Missis Sally,” they would
sing, “That’s a ruling lady.” 55 It seemed as if in song and good humor, they
could get away with saying almost anything. And they did. The meaning of some
songs, like boatman Cesar’s, was sometimes hard for Fanny to understand, yet
Cesar and the slaves understood it well: “The trumpets blow, the bugles
sound –oh stand your ground,” they would sing as if striking a defiant
pose. 56<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>This African rhythm of plantation work was
especially evident in the music played and sung by the boatmen and many other
slaves. Some songs had more than an African rhythm; they were American versions
of songs sung by their ancestors. Mrs. Amelia Dawley, a Gullah- Geechee
resident of Harris Neck, McIntosh County, Georgia, taught the following song to
her daughter Mary Moran, who, with the help of scholars, found the small
village of Senehun Ngola where their family originated. There, thousands of
miles across the Atlantic, they still sing the same song in the Mende language
as a funeral song: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> Ah wakuh muh monuh kambay
yah lee luh lay tambay <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Ha
suh wileego seehai yuh gbangah lilly <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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suh wileego dwelin duh kwen <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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suh willeego seehi yuh kwendaiyah 57<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Everyone come together, let us
work hard <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
grave is not yet finished, let his heart be perfectly at peace <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Everyone
come together, let us work hard <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The
grave is not yet finished, let his heart be perfectly at peace.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sudden death commands everyone’s
attention, <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">like
a firing gun<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sudden
death commands everyone’s attention<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Oh
elders, oh heads of family <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Sudden
death commands everyone’s attention <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Like
a distant drumbeat. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">African
rhythms thus played a major part in the world of plantation work, beginning
with the driver’s blowing of the conch shell an hour before daylight and ending
with the blowing of the same at sundown. Butler slaves knew the meaning of that
call. Though it may have seemed that they had barely slept, it was time to
labor in the fields, in the big house, in the rice mill and wherever else they
were needed. Just as soon as the call went forth, it would not be unusual for a
song to be heard. It was a song of hope and a song of encouragement for the day
that would otherwise be dark with hardship. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">Butler slaves knew many such
songs. These were songs that their forefathers that had sung which helped them
keep time and wile away the time during the long night that was slavery. When
almost all hope was lost in this side of the world, they looked to
the next: <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> ‘E got ‘e ca’go raidy. Raidy. Raidy. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> ‘E got ‘e ca’go raidy.
Fo’to wait on de Lawd. 59<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;"> (He got his cargo ready.
Ready. Ready. He got his cargo ready. Just for to wait on the Lord.) <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: black; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">The African rhythms and the
Gullah language, itself a mixture of English and African words, made for a
powerful mix of pathos and hope. They were work songs, but they were often
religious in nature too. These rhythms undergirded them from sunup to sundown
and would touch every key in the emotional spectrum –from desperate sorrow
to raucous humor accompanied with the stamping of feet and the waving of hands.
These are the same songs of which W. E. B. Dubois would
later declare: “I know these songs are the articulate message of the
slave to the world .” 60<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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55 Kemble, p. 142.<o:p></o:p></div>
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56 Ibid. p. 260. <o:p></o:p></div>
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57 “Amelia’s Song: A
Song led them home,” Harris Neck Land Trust, www.harrisnecklandtrust1.xbuild.com/ amelias- song/ 4529751671, accessed October
28, 2016 . Scholars Joseph Opala and Cynthia Schmidt were instrumental in this
effort. A fi lm called The Language You Cry In was made of Amelia’s song
and its connection to the village in Sierra Leone.<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>58 Elieen Southernand Josephine Wright ,
African American Traditions in Song, Sermon, Tale and Dance, 1600’s- 1920 (
Westport, CT : Greenwood Pub. Group , 1990).<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>59 Shane Whiteand Graham White , The Sounds of
Slavery: Discovering African American History Through Songs, Sermons and
Speech ( Boston : Beacon Press , 2005 ) p. 65. <o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>60 Wilbur Cross , Gullah Culture in America (
Winston– Salem : John F. Blair Publisher , 2012 ) p. 205 and
Chapter 3 .<o:p></o:p></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Anne C.
Bailey<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Weeping-Time-Largest-Auction-American/dp/1316643484" target="_blank">The WeepingTime: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History </a>(Cambridge
University Press, 2017)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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A painting of the Gullah Geechee Ring Shouters by John W. Jones, artist.<br />
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Visit to Butler Island, March 2018, the original docks used by Butler estate boatmen.<br />
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<b>AN INTERVIEW WITH EDWARD T. O'DONNELL, IN THE PAST LANE PODCAST</b><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Did I ever
tell you about the time I met the writer James Baldwin? I was a junior at
Harvard, majoring in English and French with an Africana focus.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I lived in one of the dormitories or houses
as we called them on campus. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">These houses
were vibrant places; not simply a place to eat and sleep but a place where it was
not unusual to connect with invited guests who were asked to share their knowledge
with the community.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They were run by House Masters, </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">a term I now find curious, but then
did not question.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Interestingly, in
recent times, these residential college directors have been renamed </span><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/25/us/at-harvard-dorms-house-masters-no-more.html" style="font-size: 14pt;" target="_blank">Faculty Deans</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;">.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Often, it would be a married academic couple that resided on the compound and hosted events for the entire community.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Academics, writers, artists, all passed
through.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Luminaries could be invited to
speak to the whole campus or in some cases, as in the case of Baldwin, they
would be invited by the House Masters to join us in a more intimate setting.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And so it
was that one week in the spring of my junior year, I got a call from the
masters of my house, an older white couple, who asked me to join them for
dinner with none other than James Baldwin, the famous writer, civil rights activist and one of<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>my heroes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>After enthusiastically saying yes, I remember
getting off the phone and rejoicing with my roommates at the thought of this
opportunity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They made me promise to go
and come back and tell them everything.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>At
the time, none of us speculated as to why I was asked.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps we all assumed that my study of
Africana Studies (Black writers in French and English) was one possible reason.
I also worked with other black women to restart a black
woman’s service organization called the Association of Black Radcliffe
women.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">That, too, we thought may
have had something to do with it.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"></span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">So when
the day arrived that James Baldwin came to campus, I put on my best dress and took
the elevator to the masters’ penthouse apartment like one going to see a true
luminary. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">At the same time, I felt a
sense of familiarity with the man whose books had made such an imprint on my life. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Baldwin’s
work was like an awakening.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Nobody-Knows-Name-James-Baldwin/dp/0679744738" target="_blank"><i style="font-size: 14pt;">Nobody Knows my Name</i><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, </span><i style="font-size: 14pt;">Go tell it on the Mountain</i></a><span style="font-size: 14pt;">, his essays
on his forays in France --they made me think. They made me proud of who I was. They were so deeply personal yet historical at the same time, and though it</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">would be a long time before I found my
calling as a historian and a writer, I read Baldwin’s poignant novels then as works of history.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I remember
almost leaping out of the elevator with great anticipation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I rushed to the door and was warmly greeted
by the hostess. I looked fervently around to see if I<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>could spot him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Slim, in his early sixties but appearing more
youthful, he sat at a giant candle lit <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>table near windows overlooking the budding trees and flowers.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It was spring, and it was not yet dark so you
could see that everything was beginning to bloom again. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I don’t
remember the rest of the setting, but I do remember that against this beautiful
backdrop, he was sitting alone. There were others milling around, but they were
not sitting or standing directly next to him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In that
moment, it struck me that other than Baldwin, I was the only black person in
the room.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I am not sure why it struck me as unusual, but
perhaps I had gotten used to seeing many black and brown faces on campus that
somehow<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>this stood out.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I was part of one of the most multicultural
classes in Harvard’s history. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I rarely
felt</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">like “the only one” in most
settings on campus, but that evening, I felt that right away.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">But I wasn’t going to let that be a problem.
What did that matter? I was meeting one of my heroes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I was about to make my way to the table where
he was seated when the hostess took me by the arm....and </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">ushered
me to the kitchen.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Come this
way,” she said as she pointed to a tray of hors d’oeuvres that I was to carry.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This is the
point where I wish I could report exactly what I said but I can’t. I can only
report this feeling of being absolutely crushed in mind and spirit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I said something, quietly, to the effect of:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“Oh, but I
thought I was invited to meet Mr. Baldwin, not to serve...”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I mean,
there were jobs in the college like this for students like myself who worked
their way through school with part time jobs, but this was not my job. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>There was nothing wrong with those jobs, but I
worked in the box office of the campus theater. That was my job –selling
tickets.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I tried to
remember: when she called me the week before to invite me, had I missed
something?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were there other students
being asked to serve? No. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The strange
thing was that up until this point, my dealings with the House Masters had
always been cordial and respectful, not anything of note.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now here I was, here to meet James Baldwin,
the only other black person in the room, and I was being ushered to the kitchen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Suddenly,
the hostess caught herself and somehow turned it around and invited me instead to
stay and have dinner with them. But it was too late. I was crestfallen.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And James
Baldwin, ever the astute writer and observer of life, especially life in
America, looked across the room and knew it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">He was far
enough away that he could not have heard our exchange, but he felt it and he
saw it for what it was and gave me the most knowing look with his large piercing
eyes that I remember to this day.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The next
thing I knew he was ushering me to his side, to his table. I was to sit next to
him at dinner. I was to be <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">his</i> guest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I almost
never tell this story. In fact, in thirty years, I have told it only once in a private setting.
I think, in my mind, I decided that since it all ended well ––that perhaps it was
not such a bad day after all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But it was.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Maybe I did not want this story to mar what was overall a phenomenal experience I had at Harvard. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> Nothing like that had ever happened
before which ironically made it all the more difficult to accept. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Harvard was not just a school. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It was my home for four years, the way any
place would have been where you made friends, you ate and slept and worked and
played.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I had great classmates, the Class
of 1986. But it was more than that.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">I
felt a connection to the place. The time worn red cobblestones beneath my feet;
the smell of flowers that permeated the air in spring after cold Cambridge
winters; the thrill of discovery of yet another little library tucked away in a
building on the edge of campus with books that had the look, feel and musty smell of first
editions. It was my home, and things like this don’t happen in your home. Do
they?</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Besides, these
were the years of President Derek Bok, a great visionary and believer in multicultural
education and representation. It was a pioneering time, but for
all of the great vision and all the hard work that brought me there, in that
one gesture, my hostess took me back… back <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">there</i>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Back to that
place and that time where that is all I could reasonably expect – that any
invite to her home was to serve, not to be served.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Even now, I don’t write in anger because I suppose she was, as we say
sometimes, a product of her time, but I wonder as I write and think about the
lasting impact of slavery in this country and in the Caribbean, how is it we
don’t talk about trauma?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Not just the
trauma of the past but the repeated incidents of racism that threaten to bring
it all back.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That is what
I think about now.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That is what my next
book will be about; that and how to heal that trauma.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But in the
meantime, I can still see James Baldwin’s eyes—fixed on me and my predicament
–which was also his predicament and the one he dedicated his life to writing
about – those eyes that pulled me in and out of history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">That is my
lasting memory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">A young James Baldwin, 1955.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Image courtesy of Carl Van Vechten, Library of Congress, Public Domain.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Anne C. Bailey</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">Author of <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Weeping-Time-Largest-Auction-American/dp/1316643484" target="_blank">The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History.</a> (Cambridge University Press, 2017)</span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954942158357353229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426509702019838062.post-9103505612081141322018-03-04T17:27:00.001-08:002018-03-04T19:25:36.722-08:00The Weeping Time is also A Story of Hope and Resilience<div style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; margin: 0in;">
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<span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">Today
is the 159<sup>th</sup> anniversary of The Weeping Time auction. In honor of
this anniversary, I share with you:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;">"Hope, Resilience and the
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registration is recommended. Please contact Julie Borgealt. julie.borgealt@alverno.edu<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954942158357353229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426509702019838062.post-68552029144675236882018-02-26T11:20:00.000-08:002018-02-26T11:21:06.102-08:00Headed to Savannah with The Weeping Time and Feature in the Savannah Morning News<div class="MsoNormal">
<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">This week is
the anniversary of the auction that I wrote about in my book, <i>The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest
Slave Auction in American History. </i>The auction took place March 2-3, 1859.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Many thanks
to Kristopher Munroe for his thoughtful treatment of the book and this history.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://savannahnow.com/accent/2018-02-24/these-people-s-lives-mattered-too-book-gives-new-narrative-savannah-s-weeping-time">http://savannahnow.com/accent/2018-02-24/these-people-s-lives-mattered-too-book-gives-new-narrative-savannah-s-weeping-time</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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is scheduled for March 2 at 9am in Savannah, Georgia.Those attending are
asked to bring umbrellas to recall the rain that fell on those fateful days the
slaves called “The Weeping Time.” </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">It is a sign of hope that a historical marker has been
established at the site of the auction and a regular memorial is being held to
honor those who were sold away.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I am happy
to be visiting on March 22 and giving the Mark Finlay Memorial Lecture at GSU’s
Armstrong Campus in the Fine Arts Auditorium at 6pm. The Gullah Geechee Ring
Shouters who reenact the auction and sing Negro spirituals created in the antebellum period will be joining me. Their music
has been a balm to audiences around the country. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">For those
who are able, you are welcome to join us.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Many thanks to so many who contributed to this book in some way; who hosted me in my
visits to the city and who provided behind the scenes help in the research and
production. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Finally, I want to acknowledge the descendants. It is your work of restoration that I honor in this
book and it is a work of restoration that I hope will inspire others to do the
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #464646; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Where</span></strong><span style="color: #464646; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">: Gather at Otis J. Brock III Elementary School
gymnasium, 804 Stratford St., and walk to The Weeping Time site at Augusta
Avenue and Dunn Street. Bring umbrella to recall the rains that fell March 2-3,
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<strong style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span style="color: #464646; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">Where:</span></strong><span style="color: #464646; font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> GSU’s Armstrong Campus, Fine Arts Auditorium,
11935 Abercorn St.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954942158357353229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426509702019838062.post-2100775522695694792018-02-18T23:12:00.000-08:002018-02-19T05:40:06.411-08:00Letter to Parkland Students<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I have been
a teacher most of my adult life and it’s a role I cherish. I cherish it because
of what I teach –African, African American and Caribbean history--but mostly
because of young people, young people like you.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I can not
tell you how much I admire you for standing up for the change you want to see. You are channeling your grief in the best way
you know how and I believe we will all
be the better for it.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I am sorry,
though, that this must be your burden as you are children. What I have seen and
watched over the years is that our nation’s schools have turned into
battlegrounds, and little has been done to change that. We spend billions of
dollars fighting wars abroad and yet are losing the war at home. We are concerned with peaceful protesters
such as those who protest the deaths of unarmed Black teens, think <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2013/06/05/us/trayvon-martin-shooting-fast-facts/index.html" target="_blank">Trayvon Martin</a>, but the
random slaughter of children in our schools hardly moves the needle.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">You know,
there were some children like you in the 50’s and the 60’s; they were brave too. You may have learned about
them in your school because I can see that Marjory Stoneman Douglas is a very
good school. Those children were Ruby Bridges and the Little Rock Nine and others
like them who dressed in their Sunday finest and braved hateful words and violent mobs just
because they wanted an education.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">They dared
to integrate our schools when half the country wanted them to stay home. They needed Federal Marshals to escort them
to school, some for as long as a year, but they were undaunted. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And you know
what happened? Justice and righteousness
prevailed and their schools got integrated and that is the legacy they bequeathed
to you. You are a beautiful multicultural
group, and from what I can tell, you could not imagine it any other way. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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hearts, know that you are not alone. Be inspired by the past but carve out your
own path and help this sleeping public to hear your voice when you say:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Enough is
enough to gun violence. Never again for
another school, for another set of students.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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want say one last thing. I was at a
conference this weekend and there were many students there trying to think through other difficult challenges like diversifying their campus and reducing racial conflict. We had really productive dialogue, but at one
point, a friend and fellow teacher said to the group:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“We are so sorry. We failed you. Our generation failed you. "</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We failed
you. We didn’t protect you. We squabbled
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Kumbaya, “Come by here” in the Gullah language,
the song of peace, the song of hope, is finally getting its due. <a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200197143/" target="_blank">Henry Wylie</a>, a member of the Gullah Geechee
community, recorded the first known
version of the song in 1926. After
<a href="https://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2018/02/gullah-geechee-community-finally.html" target="_blank">my blogpost </a>last week about the song’s origins in the traditions of the Gullah
Geechee African American people of Southeastern Georgia, over 400,000 of
you viewed the post and voiced your enthusiasm for the Library of Congress, the
Georgia Legislature and the United States Congress giving credit where credit
is due! A big thanks also to John Eligon of the <i><a href="http://nytimes.com/2018/02/09/us/kumbaya-gullah-geechee.html" target="_blank">New York Times</a></i>, who read this post, reached out to me, Griffin
Lotson and others involved in this effort and wrote an excellent piece on the
origin and impact of kumbaya.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So many of
you wrote poignantly about growing up with this song and how much it meant to
you. Many people remembered fondly parents singing the song to them or singing
it around a campfire. Literally, people
from all over the world, from Argentina to New Zealand, wrote about its
significance in their lives and seemed to bond even more with the song knowing
that it was a song borne of pain and suffering but also hope in the African
American community. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">That the
song is a plea to God for help was not lost on most readers; it affirmed how
this song speaks to them, especially when they are in pain.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">So as we
celebrate its origin and its continued impact, I encourage you to support
continued efforts of the Gullah community to preserve this incredible
culture. Here’s why this is so
important.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">The Problem: Gentrification of Gullah
lands<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Gullah
Geechee communities on the Sea Islands are under threat from rising land prices
and the practices of predatory developers.
In years past, some developers have used loopholes in the ways in which
property is inherited to get the land <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/african-americans-have-lost-acres/" target="_blank">auctioned to the highest bidder.</a> With island land now being
in high demand, property values have risen sharply and increased property taxes
threaten to remove those who have for over two hundred years stayed close to
the land and created this culture from which hails this significant song. <a href="https://www.gullahgeecheecorridor.org/" target="_blank">The Gullah Geechee Heritage Corridor Federal Commission</a>, many of whose
commissioners hail from the community, is doing its best to preserve the
culture, but public support for their efforts
could make that vital difference. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Should these
lands be given landmark status so that the community can maintain their
historical and cultural ties to the land? Could a community land trust be
started and funded to take the land out of the real estate market and allow it
to be managed in ways that help the community?
Maybe this would give communities like Sapelo Island, Harris Neck as
well as others the stability they need to plan for the future. Finally, would
this ensure that those interested in cultural heritage tourism, and at the
moment, that is many of us, would continue to have great places to visit?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">People are
already flocking by the thousands to the
annual <a href="http://www.penncenter.com/heritage-days/" target="_blank">Gullah festivals</a> and I can only imagine that more activities like these
would be an added boon to the economy of this region.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">What do <i>you</i> the readers think?<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Furthermore,
could letters to the <a href="https://gov.georgia.gov/webform/contact-governor" target="_blank">Georgia Governor</a>, <a href="https://www.isakson.senate.gov/public/index.cfm/email-me" target="_blank">Senators </a>
and <a href="https://www.perdue.senate.gov/connect/email" target="_blank">other local elected officials</a>
make a difference? I am wondering out
loud if there is a way that public support could help these landowners and culture bearers hold onto their land.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">After all it
<b><i>is</i></b>
historic land. This is the case not just
because of the song kumbaya but because ironically these lands represent the
only instance where African Americans actually received reparations.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Forty Acres and A Mule<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">In my recent
book, <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Weeping-Time-Largest-Auction-American/dp/1316643484" target="_blank">The Weeping Time</a></i>, I document
the fact that according <a href="https://www.aaihs.org/african-american-freedom-and-the-illusive-forty-acres-and-a-mule/" target="_blank">Sherman’s infamous Field Order no. 15</a>, on January 16,
1865, ex slaves on the Sea Islands were
granted plots of forty acres by the Union General. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> These were the only former slaves who ever
received </span><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2014/06/the-case-for-reparations/361631/" style="font-size: 14pt;" target="_blank">reparations</a><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> in all of United States.
In fact, there were the only people of African descent in the New World who
ever received any reparations at all! </span><a href="http://caricomreparations.org/" style="font-size: 14pt;" target="_blank">Efforts in the Caribbean are afoot</a>,<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> but as of this writing, this reality has not changed.</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Some 40,000
of the newly freed slaves were to be settled on 400,000 acres of land and given
mules for farming which came to be known as “Sherman’s Reservation.” This meant that the Black people of the Sea
Islands experienced something that few others did at this time: freedom with
teeth- freedom <i>and</i> property
ownership.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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never be fully repaid for 246 years of unrequited
labor, but they were given something to even the playing field.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">But it was
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As I say in
my book: “ Sadly, no one could have
anticipated that this order could have been so short lived. Shortly after Lincoln’s assassination on April
14, 1865, President Andrew Johnson
promptly rescinded the order and returned the lands back to their
original owners. It had been a bold
experiment, but now it was over.”</span></div>
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thing is that in spite of this backlash and retrenchment, many Sea Islanders
and their families through continued hard work, persistence and banding together, found a way to
purchase land near or on their old plantations and hold onto it. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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finding that legacy threatened.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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culture go hand in hand. For all our sakes, we hope they can preserve both.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;"><i>Kumbaya My
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Author of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Weeping-Time-Largest-Auction-American/dp/1316643484" target="_blank">The Weeping Time: Memory and the LargestSlave Auction in American History</a></i>. (Cambridge University Press, 2018)<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Assistance from <a href="http://law.ubalt.edu/faculty/profiles/mcfarlane/" target="_blank">Professor Audrey McFarlane</a>.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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A. Bailey, <i>The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History</i></div>
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<o:p>Karen Cook Bell, "African American Freedom and the Illusive Forty Acres and a Mule."</o:p><br />
<o:p>https://www.aaihs.org/african-american-freedom-and-the-illusive-forty-acres-and-a-mule/</o:p><br />
<o:p>Eric Foner, <i>Forever Free: The Story of Emancipation and Reconstruction</i></o:p><br />
<o:p>Henry Louis Gates Jr.," The Truth Behind Forty acres and Mule."</o:p><br />
<o:p>http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/history/the-truth-behind-40-acres-and-a-mule/</o:p></div>
Gullah Geechee Nation, http://www.GullahGeecheeNation.com<br />
S. Winick, https://blogs.loc.gov/folklife/2018/02/kumbaya-history-of-an-old-song/<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05954942158357353229noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2426509702019838062.post-32202178974303284942018-02-04T07:31:00.000-08:002019-03-06T13:06:36.281-08:00Gullah Geechee community finally credited with song “Kumbaya"<div class="MsoNormal">
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Many a camper
in America and around the world know the camp favorite, “kumbaya.” It is known as a song of peace, a song of
community. Few may know, however, that the song was first recorded by
descendants of slaves in the Gullah Geechee community of Darien in Southeastern
Georgia. Over the last ten years, I have had the pleasure of interviewing and
listening to members of this community for my book, <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Weeping-Time-Largest-Auction-American/dp/1316643484/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8" target="_blank"><i>The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History.</i><o:p></o:p></a></span></div>
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Geechees have now been credited with the song’s origin and a resolution
recognizing Georgia’s first state historical song has been enacted. Gullah Geechee
native and Mayor Protem of Darien Georgia, Rev. Griffin Lotson, did the research
and with representatives of the Folklife Center in the Library of Congress found
the first original wax cylinder recording. Listen to it <span id="goog_1704289164"></span><a href="https://www.loc.gov/item/ihas.200197143/" target="_blank">here</a><span id="goog_1704289165"></span>.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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goes that Robert Winslow Gordon, a Harvard graduate who later became the first
Head of the Archive of American Song at the Library of Congress, recorded the
song in 1926. Henry Wylie was the singer
and a member of the Gullah Geechee community. “Kumbaya” meant “Come by here”
in Gullah and was a plea to God for help.
In the interim years, missionaries and folk singers including Pete Seeger, Joan Baez and Odetta made the song
popular around the world, but if we look closely at the lyrics, we see how
similar they are to Negro spirituals.
Negro spirituals or as African American scholar, W.E. B. Dubois
called them, sorrow songs, were a cry for help.
They were an important part of the oral tradition that allowed the
enslaved to share their most intimate desires and needs with God. They
were mostly Christian songs but also sometimes had a subversive message. Coded
language in songs were used to help runaway slaves find freedom by means of the
Underground Railroad trail. As such,
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Kum ba ya, my lord, Kum ba ya!<br />
Kum ba ya, my lord, Kum ba ya.<br />
O Lord, Kum ba ya<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Someone's crying, Lord, Kum ba ya!<br />
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Someone's singing, Lord, Kum ba ya!<br />
Someone's singing, Lord, Kum ba ya!<br />
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Someone's praying, Lord, Kum ba ya!<br />
Someone's praying, Lord, Kum ba ya!<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">Anne C. Bailey<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="font-size: 18.6667px;">email: freedomlives4@yahoo.com</span><br />
<span style="line-height: 19.9733px;"><span style="font-size: 18.6667px;"><br /></span></span><span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">For more on Gullah Geechee history and culture --Book available on Amazon</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;">Federal Commission Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 19.9733px;">https://www.gullahgeecheecorridor.org/</span><br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 19.9733px;"><a href="http://www.annecbailey.net/">http://www.annecbailey.net</a> (website)</span><br />
<span style="font-size: 18.6667px; line-height: 19.9733px;"><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABUZcObLc_8" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABUZcObLc_8(interview with author)</a></span><br />
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Gullah Geechee Ring Shouters, who share the oral traditions of Southeastern Georgia and the Gullah Geechee community all over the world.<br />
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Largest Slave Auction in American History</span></a>,</span></b><span style="color: #222222; font-size: 14.0pt;"><br />
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New York University<br />
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Well, it's been one year of
blogging at Baileyblog and I am happy to mark this milestone with you, the
readers. Thank you for reading the blog, sharing it with others also and also sharing your comments. A big thank you to our guest contributors, Dr. Bernice J. deGannes Scott
and Douglas Law Jr.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">I thought I would
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<i>The Weeping Time</i> this week Wednesday, if you happen to be in New York City.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Jan. 21 <b><a href="http://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2017/01/the-america-that-raised-me.html" target="_blank">The America That Raised Me<o:p></o:p></a></b></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt;">I still believed that
the America that raised me was at its core compassionate, welcoming and
loving….yet now I hear of another America that boldly says, “America first!
“ <span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span>and “Make America great again” with clenched fists
instead of outstretched hands.<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span>Now I hear
of another America that is turned inward not outward. Now I hear of another
America less proud of its welcoming past and more concerned with its own
problems, its own plight. Now I hear of another America which suddenly has no
more to give.<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span>And I weep because the America that raised me
stood head and shoulders above the world precisely because it dared to link its
fate to the fate of Lady Liberty’s tired, poor, and huddled masses.<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span>It dared to join its soul to those dejected
souls.<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span>It dared to share and it dared to reach out and
it was in those moments that it was first and it was<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span>great.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt;"> <b><a href="http://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2017/05/turning-point-harriet-tubman-and-suit.html" target="_blank">Turning Point: Harriet Tubman and the Suit She bought for her husband</a></b></span><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">The records don’t say but in my mind’s eye I imagine her picking
out just the right suit, just the right color and fit and pinning her hopes and
dreams on the suit and the man that would wear it. She then <i>voluntarily</i> leaves
relative safety in the North to come back for that man only to hear that he has
moved on! Moved on?</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">More at </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;">http://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2017/05/turning-point-harriet-tubman-and-suit.html</span><br />
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</span><span style="background: white; font-size: 14pt;">May 27,
2017 <a href="http://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2017/05/the-life-of-jordan-edwards-2002-17.html" target="_blank"><b>The Life of Jordan Edwards</b></a></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">I know and you know that blogposts and facebook posts don’t save
lives. I know they can’t change much that is wrong with the world but when a
life is lost for an apparently unjust reason, they do say one thing: that life
matters.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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After 10 long years, it will see the light of day this fall. A big thank you to
all who made this possible. From time to time, I will share excerpts on this
blog with particular attention as to why memory of this period matters.</span><br />
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;"><b><a href="http://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2017/07/the-journey-to-economic-freedom-begins.html" target="_blank">The Journey to Economic Freedom Begins with a Few Basic Steps</a></b></span><b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></b><br />
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">People who grew up in the tradition of the “sou-sou” will attest
to its utility, having witnessed first-hand how it has impacted
lives. Perhaps, the family used the lump-sum payments to
accumulate funds for the down payment on the purchase of a house or to pay for a
wedding; for college tuition or to establish a rainy day account. A
successful “sou-sou” thrives on honesty, trust, community, and the desire to
save money. Try it. I do believe that Ms. McCarty and Ms.
Winfrey, the ancestors, and you will be pleased with the result.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">As a child, I remember being transfixed by a Jamaican TV show
called “Ring Ding” hosted by a Dr. Louise Bennett who was affectionately called
Miss Lou. Ring Ding was a kind of Jamaican Sesame Street with one major
character: Miss Lou. She presided over groups of students in a school
setting and sang heritage songs, told stories and recited poems representing
hundreds of years of culture. She elevated the Jamaican language, patois,
to an art form and exposed its multicultural roots at a time when others were
ashamed of it.<o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="color: #333333; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;">More at </span><a href="http://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2017/07/standing-on-shoulders-of-miss-lou-and.html" style="font-size: 13.5pt;">http://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2017/07/standing-on-shoulders-of-miss-lou-and.html</a><br />
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<span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">August 19, 2017 <b><a href="http://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2017/08/heather-heyer-and-power-of-one-voice.html" target="_blank">Heather Heyer and the Power of One Voice</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">I want
them to know that their voice can change and enhance the conversation, and that
all voices are needed at the table.</span><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;"><br />
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">Heather
Heyer, a 32 year old woman, if we listen to her equally <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/16/just-love-father-heather-heyer-makes-emotional-plea-memorial/" target="_blank"><span style="color: #fead01;">stalwart mother</span></a>, seemed
to have understood this early. Her voice mattered and she would not be silent
in the face of injustice.</span><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">More at </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">http://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2017/08/heather-heyer-and-power-of-one-voice.html</span><br />
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</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">6, 2017</span><b style="font-size: 14pt;"> <a href="http://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2017/11/why-memory-of-slavery-matters.html" target="_blank"> Why Memory of Slavery Matters</a></b></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">Memory matters because, as Civil War historian James
McPherson says:</span><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;"> </span><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">“the war is still with us.” It is not only the great
academic works which have looked at the war from every angle that demonstrate
this continuing interest, but it is the Lincoln associations, the Civil War Round
Tables, and the hundreds of reenactors who meet regularly throughout the year
to reenact battle scenes of days gone by.<a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_ednref1"></a><a href="file:///C:/Users/abailey/Desktop/Revisions/EPILOGUE%20%20Revised%202.docx#_edn1">[i]</a> In
short, memory matters because the past is hardly past, as William Faulkner
would say. It lingers around the contours of our minds and
hearts as any unresolved issue tends to do...</span><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;"> Though there has been much progress, the dream of a post racial
society is just that…a dream. Ironically, it may in fact be the
deepest desire of most of American society, but we still have a long way
to go. Yes, memory matters because without it, we are left with a
shadowy lens of the past and such cloudiness is an obstacle to racial
reconciliation. As the Gullah proverb reminds us: "Mustekcyear
a de root fa heal de tree." (You need to take care of the root
in order to heal the tree.) Ultimately, memory matters because racial
reconciliation matters.</span><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt; padding: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></span><br />
<span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">More at http://annecbailey.blogspot.com/2017/11/why-memory-of-slavery-matters.html</span></div>
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on the Travel Channel with the story of the Osage investigation- a remarkable
story of what happened to a Native American group who enjoyed great wealth in
the 1920’s due to discovery of oil wells on their land. </span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">See also a great book on this story:</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI</span></a></span></i><span style="border: 1pt none; font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 14pt; padding: 0in;">, David Grann.</span><span style="font-family: "arial" , sans-serif; font-size: 10.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;">Two weekends
ago, one of the curators of the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture graciously
sent me a ticket to see the museum. I
was in Washington DC for a conference and assumed that it would be impossible to get
tickets on short notice. </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Ever since
the opening of the museum in </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">September
of 2016, it has been a sold out affair.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">In fact, for months, it was reported that it was impossible to get
tickets and that the lines were very always very long.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I considered
it particularly good fortune that this was the weekend of the record cold
temperatures along the North and South Coast and one of the museum’s curators,
Mary Elliott, was attending the same conference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And so it
was that I toured at least one full floor of the museum which has five
floors. I toured the floor on
Slavery and Freedom. In a word, it was
excellent.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The exhibits
told multiple stories starting first with the Atlantic Slave trade and then the
development of slavery in North America.
Much care was taken to showcase incredible artifacts from all over the
country like an auction block and notices regarding the sale of slaves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">Next to the
block there was</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><b style="font-size: 14pt;">THE WEEPING TIME</b><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> in bold letters and a caption describing the
domestic slave trade—where the enslaved were sold from one plantation to
another with little regard to family ties. In the end, that was what was so significant
about this exhibit: the perspective of the enslaved was captured.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">“Ashley’s Sack”was displayed with the explanation
that it was items like these that enslaved family members shared with each other
upon parting.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">They took with them a
lock of hair, a swath of clothing… mementos that they undoubtedly held dear.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Equally
moving were the descriptions of African American culture including expressions
of music and faith. Original items like
fiddles and banjos (an instrument originating from Africa) were on display as
was an actual slave cabin that had been transplanted to the museum. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;">But this was
not just a story about slavery but also a story of the pursuit of freedom.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">Every effort was made to capture the stories
of slaves who escaped from slavery,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">
</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">fought for their freedom in the Civil War and</span><span style="font-size: 14pt;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt;">who attempted to piece their lives back
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Ironically,
the National African American Museum has an almost ideal location – almost
exactly opposite from <a href="https://www.whitehousehistory.org/press-room/press-fact-sheets/slavery-and-the-white-house" target="_blank">the White House</a> and stands as a reminder that that very
house was built by slaves; that the nation itself benefitted greatly from their
contributions and the contributions of their descendants.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Hats off to
the curators like Mary Elliott and others who did a masterful job in telling
this complex and ongoing story. Hats
off to the sponsors – corporate and governmental- who made this dream a
reality. May the crowds keep pouring in as they are from far and near. May they leave this place with new understanding
and a commitment and interest in freedom for all.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Travel CHANNEL NEWS<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<b><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sunday, January 21 at 11am<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Anne Bailey
returns to Mysteries of the Museum on
the Travel Channel with the story of the Osage investigation- a remarkable
story of what happened to a Native American group who enjoyed great wealth in
the 1920’s due to discovery of oil wells on their land. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">http://www.travelchannel.com/shows/mysteries-at-the-museum/episodes/sergeant-bill-goat-hero-gilded-grudge-and-osage-investigation<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Killers-Flower-Moon-Osage-Murders/dp/0385534248" target="_blank">Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI</a></span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">, David Grann.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">NEWTON’S GRACE</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">: <i>The
True Story of Amazing Grace</i> (Inspirata
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Can you
remember when you first heard or sang the hymn <i>Amazing Grace</i>? I have
difficulty recalling my initial encounter with the famous tune and lyrics, but
it seems to be a part of my earliest memories as this song is so embedded in
both the religious and cultural fabric of American society. The verses of this
hymn that we have come to know and love here in the United States, however, originated
“across the pond” in England from the pen of seaman turned poet, John Newton
(1725 – 1807). According to the PBS
television series, <i><a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html" target="_blank">Africans in America</a></i>,
“…John Newton was born-again…at least several times during his life”.<span style="color: red;">[i]</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Newton’s Grace</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> is an 84-minute
historical drama written and directed by Moravian pastor, John Jackman. This feature-length movie (now on DVD)
includes a mostly professional cast and a wonderful musical score. With a very low budget of an estimated
$115,000, the film’s quality is still decent. The special effects, however, are mediocre
compared to films with higher production budgets. <span style="color: red;">[ii] </span>Overall, the movie is well done and
has garnered several outstanding awards including an award for excellence in concept
and execution.<i> “The story is very
compelling,” </i>Jackman says. <i>“It is a story of a man whose life was
completely transformed. He went from
misspent youth to pretty much changing the world. This is a story I have been wanting to tell
for a long time”. </i><span style="color: red;">[iii]</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Here you
will find a fascinating retelling of the life of an obscure sailor whose hymn, <i>Amazing Grace</i>, as well as his subsequent
involvement as an abolitionist has made him a historical figure. Even though film director Jackman allows for
minor dramatic license with some facts of Newton’s written account in several
scenes, much of the movie’s narration comes directly from Newton’s autobiography,
<i>Out of the Depths: The Autobiography of
John Newton</i>, published in 1861.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In the
opening scene, we see an older John Newton as a parish minister in England
receiving a visit from a rebellious boy in the community after he is chased by
a neighbor who accused the young lad of stealing. Rev. Newton then rebukes the man, sparing the
child from well-deserved wrath and a lashing.
In return, the young boy agrees to listen to Newton’s personal “prodigal
son” story in which he shares about his own delinquency as a youth, to which
the boy responds with shock upon hearing of the minister’s past struggles and misadventures.
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Within the
remaining story, we learn of Newton’s involvement with slave ships, first on
the <i>Pegasus</i>, where he had been
transferred due to poor behavior. He
would soon end up in West Africa in 1745 where the captain of his slave ship purposely abandoned him in
Sierra Leone with European slave dealer Amos Clowe for not getting along with
the crew. In 1748, Newton would be
rescued at the request of his sea captain father in England. Boarding the ship, the <i>Greyhound</i>, he returned home on the final leg of that Triangle Trade
voyage. Upon returning to the port at
Liverpool, Newton collaborated with his father’s friend Joseph Manesty, becoming
first mate on the <i>Brownlow </i>and sailing
for the West Indies by way of the coast of Guinea. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Eventually, Newton
began to return to his Christian roots.
He discovered the book, <i>Imitation
of Christ, </i>by Thomas a Kempis and began reading the Bible. He marked March 10,
1748 as the anniversary of his return to faith. <span style="color: red;">[v] </span>Still,
he did not renounce the life of slave trading and would go on to make three more
voyages as captain of the slave ships <i>Duke
of Argyle</i> (1750) and <i>African</i>
(1752–53 and 1753–54); he continued to work in the slave trade, but gained
sympathy for the slaves during his time in Africa. He later said: <i>‘I cannot consider myself to have been a
believer in the full sense of the word, until a considerable time afterwards.’</i>"<span style="color: red;">[vi] </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Additionally,
mentoring by merchant ship captain Alexander Clunie was pivotal in Newton’s
continued spiritual growth. After some
time, while appointed a tide surveyor (i.e., customs inspector), he had the
time to prepare for ordination in the Church of England as an Anglican priest.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Inspired by
the leadership of such luminaries of his time, like George Whitfield, the great
evangelist and theologian, Newton in turn would go on to influence many others
- especially within the Abolitionist movement. One
such individual was William Wilberforce, a Member of the British
Parliament. Eventually, Newton would become
an abolitionist himself. In giving
evidence to both the Privy Council and the Parliamentary Committee (the only
former slave captain to do so), he became a true lobbyist in England against
the slave trade of Great Britain and elsewhere. <span style="color: red;">[vii]</span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“In 1788, 34 years after he had
retired from the slave trade, Newton broke a long silence on the subject with
the publication of a forceful pamphlet, Thoughts Upon the Slave Trade, in which
he described the horrific conditions of the slave ships during the Middle
Passage. He apologized for ‘a confession, which ... comes too late ... it will
always be a subject of humiliating reflection to me, that I was once an active
instrument in a business at which my heart now shudders.’”</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <span style="color: red;">[viii] </span>He
had copies sent to every member of the British Parliament, and the pamphlet
sold so well that it quickly required an additional reprinting. John Newton would live to see passage of the
Slave Trade Act 1807, the year of his death.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Moved by the Scripture, 1 Chronicles 17:16-17, Newton and William Cowper (authors of the original hymn book, Olney Hymns) wrote the famous
verses of the hymn <i>Amazing Grace. </i>They wrote the original poem quickly
within an afternoon. The music was added
separately and much later. Though not
his only hymn, <i>Amazing Grace</i> (which
was barely popular in England) was reprinted in the United States and became a
gospel music success, particularly in the Southern states. The current music of the hymn was adapted
from an old plantation tune and soon became merged with the lyrics. It gradually became one of America’s <i>“spiritual national anthems,</i>” and by the
1960s, had eventually become the <i>“most
performed and most recorded song”</i> in music history. <span style="color: red;">[ix] </span><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> In 2015, <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IN05jVNBs64" target="_blank">President Obama</a> on his visit to Emmanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church sang “Amazing
Grace” in his attempt to heal a hurting nation after the <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Charleston-Syllabus-Readings-Racism-Violence/dp/0820349577" target="_blank">Charleston church massacre</a> in which white supremacist Dylann Roof murdered nine parishioners: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #212121; font-size: 14pt;">Cynthia Hurd, 54; Susie Jackson, 87; Ethel Lance, 70; Rev.
DePayne Middleton-Doctor, 49; Hon. Rev. Clementa Pinckney, 41; Tywanza Sanders,
26; Rev. Daniel Simmons Sr., 74; Rev. Sharonda Singleton, 45; Myra Thompson, 59.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; line-height: 107%;"> Then as now, this song resonates strongly.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> “Newton’s Grace is the true story of a real
“prodigal son”, the story of miraculous forgiveness and change that lies behind
the powerful words of one of the world’s most beloved hymns.”</span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> <span style="color: red;">[x]<o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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</span></span></i><!--[endif]--><i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Amazing grace! (how sweet the sound)<br />
That saved a wretch like me!<br />
I once was lost, but now am found,<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Was blind, but now I see.<br />
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3. Thro' many dangers, toils, and snares,<br />
I have already come;<br />
'Tis grace hath brought me safe thus far,<br />
And grace will lead me home.<br />
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6. The earth shall soon dissolve like snow,<br />
The sun forbear to shine;<br />
But God, who called me here below,<br />
Will be forever mine.<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">John
Newton, </span></i><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olney_Hymns" title="Olney Hymns"><i>Olney
Hymns</i></a><i>, 1779<o:p></o:p></i></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[i]
</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><i>Africans in America</i> (Resource Bank) <a href="http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p275.html">http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1p275.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[ii]</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://newtonsgracethemovie.com/pages/">http://newtonsgracethemovie.com/pages/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[iii] "</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">A tale of grace: Local
filmmaker bringing story of John Newton to life,” Wesley Young/Winston-Salem
Journal Aug 1, 2013 - <a href="http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_705f44c2-fb12-11e2-9027-001a4bcf6878.html?mode=jqm">http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/article_705f44c2-fb12-11e2-9027-001a4bcf6878.html?mode=jqm</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[iv]</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2791334/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2791334/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Morgan, Robert J, <i>Then Sings My Soul</i>, Thomas Nelson
Publishing<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Newton, John (2003),
Hillman, Dennis, ed., <i>Out of the Depths</i>:
<i>The Autobiography of John Newton</i>,
Grand Rapids: Kregel<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[vii]</span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/null" name="_Hlk503014565"></a><a href="https://www.visionvideo.com/dvd/501402D/john-newton"><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">https://www.visionvideo.com/dvd/501402D/john-newton</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Adam (2005), <i>Bury the Chains, The British
Struggle to Abolish Slavery</i>, Basingstoke: Pan Macmillan</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[ix]</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="https://www.visionvideo.com/dvd/501402D/john-newton">https://www.visionvideo.com/dvd/501402D/john-newton</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: red; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">[x]</span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;"><a href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2791334/">http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2791334/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Grace Movie website: <a href="http://www.newtonsgracethemovie.com/">http://www.newtonsgracethemovie.com</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The John
Newton Project: <a href="http://www.johnnewton.org/">http://www.johnnewton.org/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
Abolition Project: <a href="http://abolition.e2bn.org/people_35.html">http://abolition.e2bn.org/people_35.html</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Olney Newton
Link - <a href="http://olneynewtonlink.org.uk/">http://olneynewtonlink.org.uk/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Sierra Leone
Heritage - <a href="http://www.sierraleoneheritage.org/sites/monuments/ruinsjohnnewton/">http://www.sierraleoneheritage.org/sites/monuments/ruinsjohnnewton/</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt;"> https://www.amazon.com/Charleston-Syllabus-Readings-Racism-Violence/dp/0820349577<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Happy New
Year from Baileyblog! We have been in
operation now almost a year and are happy to be adding our voice to historical
and contemporary debates. For those new to Baileyblog, we publish every weekend
on issues regarding race, slavery,
refugees, diasporas, African, African American and Caribbean Studies,
human rights, history and memory.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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others. Each month, we are reaching more and more readers and your support has made all the difference.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 115%;">As it is New
Year’s Day, I have been thinking about what that day meant for over four
million slaves one hundred and fifty four years ago. In a word, it meant freedom—long fought for,
long prayed for freedom. See below an
excerpt from <i>The Weeping Time</i> in the last chapter, “History and the Democratization
of Memory,” which tries to capture the spirit of that momentous day:<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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America was built on</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"> some of the highest ideals that man had ever espoused at
any time in history. The Declaration of
Independence’s “All men are created equal” was a clarion call for freedom—but
as it turns out, only freedom for some.
The Republic was established with
the aid of slave labor and with a blind eye to slavery.</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">The Emancipation Proclamation in so
many ways reaches back to Jefferson’s hallowed document and fills in the
missing pieces.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><i style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">It at once represents an advance
but also a corrective: a 250-year-old
wrong is corrected with one stroke of a pen.
</i><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">What that meant to African Americans, we have already discussed:
freedom was the long and elusive goal, always at the center of hopes and
prayers.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Its
delay made the reality of it all the more sweet, so it is no wonder that some
African Americans, particularly those in the South still celebrate </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">a service called Watchnight on New Year’s
eve.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Watchnight is a church service in
which they celebrate God’s deliverance of them from slavery on that fateful
night.</span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-size: 12pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">In this way, it is similar
to Jewish Passover seder celebrations.</span></div>
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this event not only changed their lives, it changed the entire country. It
would set America on the road towards
equality and civil rights that it is still on today. It was not to be a
straight line to full and total equality, for there would be setbacks and backlash,
but a door had been opened that could not be easily shut. Inasmuch as that was the case, this Emancipation
Act was a monumental victory for all Americans. It has been
said before that slavery was not unique to North America and the
West. There
are many historical examples, but surely what is unique in this case was the
height of those tremendous ideals about freedom and equality – ALL men are
created equal—and the fight to make those ideals a reality. They truly become a reality when the
Emancipation Proclamation comes into effect.
The Emancipation Proclamation gave those words true power and thus is
worth commemorating not just on the 150<sup>th </sup>anniversary, but every year, as a reminder of great progress and
even leadership in this area around the world.</span><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%; mso-ascii-font-family: Calibri; mso-hansi-font-family: Calibri;"><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Last
week,</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">I was thankful for the
opportunity to do two presentations on my new book, </span><i style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History</i><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">—one at <a href="https://www.binghamton.edu/" target="_blank">Binghamton University</a> and the other at a
conference at <a href="http://historicaldialogues.org/" target="_blank">Columbia University</a>.</span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;"> </span><span style="font-size: 14pt; text-indent: 0.5in;">Several
people in attendance commented on the state of Black families. As such, I
thought I would share an excerpt from the book on the subject.</span></div>
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auction and its aftermath also speak to contemporary perceptions of the Black
family by providing it with a historical context. Then and now, policymakers and many others
are wont to observe that the African American family is in a state of
crisis. Senator Daniel Moynihan’s famous
report on the Black family, “The Negro Family:
The Case for National Action,” did little to alleviate concerns about
the state of the black family in 1965<a href="file:///C:/Users/abailey/Desktop/BLOG/December%20blog.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a>. He mistakenly blamed the black female “matriarch” for the breakdown while
others who wrote after him placed the blame more squarely on the institution of
slavery and its subsequent legacy of racial discrimination and exclusion. As Congress of
Racial Equality ( CORE) activist and psychologist William Ryan said in reaction
in an article in <i>The Nation</i>, “ The problem is discrimination;” we ought not, then, “to blame the victim.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/abailey/Desktop/BLOG/December%20blog.docx#_edn2" name="_ednref2" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[ii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Or, as historian
Pennigroth in Stephanie Camp’s groundbreaking <i>New Studies in Slavery,</i> says eloquently: “rather than a source of
continuing dysfunction, proponents of this view argue, that the Black family,
the Black community and Black traditions of property ownership have been the
only things <i>keeping Black people from
total annihilation</i>.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/abailey/Desktop/BLOG/December%20blog.docx#_edn3" name="_ednref3" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[iii]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> This book affirms the view that the Black
family is a resilient institution.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 200%; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman";">The
statistics of the second decade of the twenty first century are no better than
those from 1965 and, according to the Urban Institute’s 50<sup>th</sup>
anniversary report on the Moynihan Report, they are in fact by some indicators worse, and not just
for Black families. Even with a Black family in the White House from
2008-2016, and a much larger middle class, little can be said to have
changed for a persistent underclass. Sociologist
William Julius Wilson points the finger at the loss of manufacturing jobs, “the
surburbanization” of employment and structural racism. It is the high rate of joblessness, he
asserts, that leads to crime and other negative impacts on black family life
and communities.<a href="file:///C:/Users/abailey/Desktop/BLOG/December%20blog.docx#_edn4" name="_ednref4" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[iv]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> The
Urban Institute additionally identifies disparities in education and the need
for reform of the criminal justice system as major contributing factors
particularly with respect to black men. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the ongoing talk about “dysfunction” stemming from the breakdown of the Black
family, it is perhaps not surprising that some Black students in my classes on
slavery often try to draw a straight line from slavery to modern times when attempting to make sense of
the Black family. “Is this why the Black family is in the state that it is in today?” they often ask
and try to answer as they devour historical texts. I continually have to remind them that there
is not, and has never been, a straight
line that can be drawn between slavery and contemporary times. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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fact, what this account of the Weeping Time may tell us if nothing else is just
how Black families struggled to stay together <i>in spite of the odds</i> during and after the time of slavery. The auction
itself reminds us of the structural attacks with which Black families have had
to contend throughout American history, the series of disruptions they have
endured from Africa to America’s shores, and then again and again as slave were
sold to different locations across the country.
So while the line may not be straight, there is definitely continuity of
the themes of struggle and resilience.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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strives to show just how critical it was for these families to restore the
breach after Emancipation and the importance of family ties – more than money, jobs and education. Many of these newly freed slaves set out on
foot flocking to plantations all over the South searching earnestly for their
loved ones. They took with them a lock
of hair, a swath of clothing – small mementos that they had saved prior to the
auction sales. They pursued every avenue in search of those whom they had
lost. They found their way to African
American churches and other gathering places looking for their loved ones. They
searched from town to town, and in some cases, from state to state, attempting
to reassemble the broken fragments that the auction, among other experiences in
slavery, had brought about.<a href="file:///C:/Users/abailey/Desktop/BLOG/December%20blog.docx#_edn5" name="_ednref5" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[v]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> So
the story of the Weeping time is not just about the breach caused by the auction
itself, but about the restoring of kinship ties in spite of the odds. It is a story of resilience, or what I call “the gift of resilience.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/abailey/Desktop/BLOG/December%20blog.docx#_edn6" name="_ednref6" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">[vi]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a><o:p></o:p></span><br />
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Author of <i><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Weeping-Time-Largest-Auction-American/dp/1316643484" target="_blank">The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History</a></i>. (Cambridge University Press, 2017)</div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "calibri" , sans-serif; font-size: x-large;">Reminder: Anne Bailey
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Mysteries at the Museum</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> is an hour-long television program on the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #6a6a6a; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif; font-weight: bold;">Travel Channel</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #545454; font-family: "roboto" , "arial" , sans-serif;"> which features museum artifacts of unusual or mysterious origins. Most of the stories represent historical events not commonly known but of great interest. It's a great family show. My job will be to narrate one of these historical stories next Thursday. </span></span><br />
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