black loyalists

  • It was heady the overheard talk as one beast of burden held another for George to ride to a Congress where Henry was going to wax poetic about liberty and death But I didn’t really need their talk to know about freedom. I just had to remember what life was like before on the Senegambia.…

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  • First of all, I want to reiterate the statement inherent in the title of this blog post: that Book of Negroes, which aired recently on BET, is not your average slave movie. It is a movie about a free young girl in Bayo, Guinea who became an enslaved woman in colonial America; who worked for…

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