Revelations: “I Am, I Was, I Am..”
Sonia Sanchez: “Middle Passage” http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P98JZhWUijY (7)
Slavery in New York: Wall Street Was Built With African Help
From The Root: The next time some right-wing commentator (Pat Buchanan, are you listening?) bellows about how white people built America, a tour of New York City could be used to point out how the slave trade (i.e., the labor of enslaved Africans) contributed to the creation of this country’s…
Slavery in North America, Pt 5
Princss of ProgressivePOC has a new piece up in this excellent series: Recently via my genealogy research, I found my GGGGG-Grandmother Catherine Little. Catherine was born in 1788 in New Jersey. It is unknown at this time whether Catherine was born free or enslaved. There are clues that lead to…