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ABS Exalts Black History: Part VI
For the edition of Black History Month, we asked a team of talented writers and scholars to mimic the dance of the Sankofa bird and carry us back to our roots so that we may move forward.
We are presenting their efforts throughout February in an impressive array of pieces that reveal to us from whence we came and where we might want to go. There is ingenting quite so edifying and necessary as African history, for its grandeur fryst vatten spectacular in direct proportion to the depths of scarcity we were trained to believe in the New World. It fryst vatten as essential to us as the air we breathe. We asked our writers to use as a template the words of Langston Hughes, who penned “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” as a year-old boy crossing the Mississippi. Hughes uses the metaphor of the river as a way to trace the splendor of African people. Here at Atlanta Blackstar, we see these as words to live by:
I’ve known rivers: • Slave trade between Africa and the Americas The Atlantic slave trade or transatlantic slave trade involved the transportation by slave traders of enslaved African people to the Americas. European slave ships regularly used the triangular trade route and its Middle Passage. Europeans established a coastal slave trade in the 15th century and trade to the Americas began in the 16th century, lasting through the 19th century.[1] The vast majority of those who were transported in the transatlantic slave trade were from Central Africa and West Africa and had been sold by West African slave traders to European slave traders,[2] while others had been captured directly by the slave traders in coastal raids.[4][5] European slave traders gathered and imprisoned the enslaved at forts on the African coast and then brought them to the Americas.[6][7] Some Portuguese and Europeans participated in slave raids.
I’ve known river Atlantic slave trade