Slavery
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I am currently finishing up the research phase for my 4th book and I came across this quote from George Washington: “For my own part, I shall not undertake to say where the Line between Great Britain and the Colonies should be drawn, but I am clearly of opinion that one ought to be drawn;…
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i. discordant never/ polyrhythmic like life we were/ in the beginning/ many feet make many sounds we took the tree and made it talk/ a jungle of sounds we produced everyone for miles around heard it gravitated towards it then strangers came chanting like gregor tolling the bell like igor creating a cacophony a frankenstein…
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They say that Illinois is the land of Lincoln And that Springfield is the heart of that land. They say that Lincoln was ugly, morose and awkward And that despite his character flaws he should be honored For keeping the country together For freeing Africans from chattel slavery. They say, they say, they say Until…
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Mississippi in Africa by Alan Huffman My rating: 4 of 5 stars Mississippi in Africa details the extremely fascinating story of enslaved black people who were repatriated back to Africa in the early to mid 19th century and who, eventually, became the “founders” of the country known as Liberia. In 1836, one Isaac Ross, a…
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I was all set to give Wench by Dolen Perkins-Valdez a half nod when I remembered a survey type of conversation I participated in a few years back. The questions we [a bunch of writers loosely connected through an online writing board] were asked was this: if we lived as slaves in America, what type…
Tichaona Chinyelu 