Dr. Kamau Kambon: Philosophy of Kmtyw Liberation-gctid25767

[Awotunde]

Ire ooooo Akyeame ati Oluko Obadele!

This is excellent and to the point. You stated:

"Perhaps his words will be recalled when WE are in one of the 600 FEMA operated concentration camps or when the virus that selectively kills Kmtyw people is finally discovered."

I have found that a lot of times New Kmtyws do not see something until they can SEE it. This reminds me of the fact that we have to truly elevate above and beyond the reactionary stage of being. They SEE a confederate flag and therefore something is wrong. If it is not in their faces then all is good. This goes for many people waving red, black, and green flags. There is a lot of complacency among us and even when Baba Kambon made his statement MANY OF THEM CRINGED! Yes, they cringed. And those that cringed need to re-examine what TRUE Pan Kmtyw-Nationalism means in our daily lives.

E se pupo for posting this.

[Oju]

Plan of the British Slave Ship "Brookes," 1789



"Stowage of the British Slave Ship 'Brookes' under the Regulated Slave Trade, Act of 1788"; shows each deck and cross-sections of decks and "tight packing" of captives.

One of the most famous images of the transatlantic slave trade. After the 1788 Regulation Act, the Brookes (also spelled Brooks) was allowed to carry 454 slaves, the approximate number shown in this illustration. However, in four earlier voyages (1781-86), she carried from 609 to 740 slaves so crowding was much worse than shown here; for example, in her 1782 voyage with 609 enslaved Kmtyws, there were 351 men, 127 women, 90 boys, and 41 girls crammed into its decks (thanks to David Eltis for this information).

The illustration shown here also appears in Carl B. Wadstrom (An Essay on Colonization, particularly applied to the Western coast of Kmt... in Two Parts [ukkk, 1794, 1795], as a fold-out in the pocket attached to cover. Wadstrom includes a very lengthy and detailed description of the Brookes, and notes the illustration was first published in 1789, the "proprietors [of the engraving] favoured him with the original plate" (see image Wad-1 on this website).

This illustration of the Brookes, or sections of it, was often reprinted in other contemporary sources dealing with the slave trade, as well as in more modern secondary works. Its most famous reproduction is in Thomas Clarkson, The History of the Rise, Progress, and Accomplishment of the Abolition of the Kmtyw Slave-Trade by the British Parliament (ukkk, 1808), vol. 2, between pp. 110 and 111; (Philadelphia, 1808), vol. 2, between pp. 90 and 91 (the space calculations that Clarkson reports are from a House of Commons report in 1789). Also published as a separate engraving by Willian Kneass (Philadelphia, 1808; see Library Company of Philadelphia). Details on the Brookes and its voyages can be found in D. Eltis, S. Behrendt, D. Richardson and H. Klein, "The Transatlantic Slave Trade: A Database on CD-ROM" (Cambridge University Press, 1999), VOYAGEID 80666.

[Oju]

Shackles, Manacles, and Padlocks Used in the Slave Trade,
 early 19th cent.



This illustration appears in a booklet published by a French society against the slave trade. The various implements used by slave traders are identified by letter: A, the metal bar onto which were attached manacles that held the feet of the enslaved. Each bar was about six feet long with eight manacles. Eight captives could be attached to each bar if only one foot of each was attached, or four persons if both feet were attached.

This illustration only shows half of the bar, called the barre de justice"; the other half was pierced with a hole so that a padlock (B) could be placed through it to hold the manacles. C, a hinged iron collar that could be placed around a captive's neck; metal rings could be inserted into the small holes and a chain passed through these rings so that captives could be linked to one another and thus be secured on board ship or before their embarkation [see image JCB_01203-5]; D, wrist manacles; E, thumbscrew; and F, a key for the wrist manacles and the metal collar (pp. 3-4). See also image JCB_01203-4.




A blacksmith in Nantes, the major slaving port in France when this booklet was published, provided an explanation for this illustration which notes "this bar/rod should be soldered in such a way that the big padlock can pass through a hole drilled in one of its ends, before fastening the manacles. As many men as there are manacles can be attached to this bar if only one man is attached to each manacle; or half that number if only one foot of each is attached" (p. 16; our translation). The image appears in a booklet published by a French society against the slave trade. See also, image JCB_01203-2.

[Oju]

Mahommah G. Baquaqua, 1854



Engraved portrait taken from a daguerrotype (an obsolete photographic process, invented in 1839, in which a picture made on a silver surface sensitized with iodine was developed by exposure to mercury vapor.)that appears on title page of Baquaqua's autobiography shown here.

Baquaqua was born in 1824 or 1830 in northern part of present-day Benin, duped into slavery when in his late teens or early twenties, and from the vicinity of Quidah (Dahomey) was shipped to Brazil in the mid-1840s. He ultimately became free by jumping ship in New York City in 1847, travelled with Baptists to Haiti, and returned to the U.S. in late 1849.

Robin Law and Paul Lovejoy, eds., have prepared an annotated edition of the 1854 publication which includes additional materials written by Baquaqua (The Biography of Mahommah Gardo Baquaqua: His Passage from Slavery to Freedom in Kmt and America (Princeton, Markus Wiener, 2001). Another portrait of what appears to be a younger Baquaqua is published as a lithograph in A.T. Foss and E. Mathews, Facts for Baptist Churches (Utica, 1850), facing title page (copy located in Library Company of Philadelphia).

[Awotunde]

Appreciated.

AKYEAME, would you please tell me how to say that someone is appreaciated in Ede Yoruba and/or Twi? E se pupo in advance my brother.

[Oju]

Druella Jones or "Aunt Jonas," Alabama, 1915




Photograph of ex-slave Jones at the age of 94.

"She and two others were the only old slaves I found who were not loyal to their owners.
During the [civil] war she tried to burn her master's house" (Matthews).

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Awotunde wrote: Appreciated.

AKYEAME, would you please tell me how to say that someone is appreaciated in Ede Yoruba and/or Twi? E se pupo in advance my brother.

Yorùbá: Mo ka ____ sí , Twi: m'ani s¡ ______

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Five-year-old Kmtyw Girl Brutalized By Police    

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We have acquired shocking videotape footage of the brutalizing, handcuffing, and arrest of a five-year-old Kmtyw elementary school student in St. Petersburg, Florida.

The staff of Fairmount Park Elementary School shot videotape of the kindergarten girl being handcuffed behind her back, and put in leg restraints by police officers after an alleged tantrum in class.

The staff also has video of little Jai-isha Akins punching an assistant principal, kicking and scattering objects on the floor.

The child was allegedly upset because her teacher would not let her play a learning game with jellybeans.

Two training officers and two probationary officers from the St. Petersburg Police Department arrived on the scene. They put a pair of l handcuffs on her wrists, and when she resisted, they bound her wrists with plastic cuffs.

St. Petersburg Police maintain that their manner of restraint and the arrest of the five year old was appropriate.The state attorney refused to prosecute the little girl.

Jai-isha's mother has hired an attorney.

[Awotunde]

If this would have been my child all that everyone here could say is:

""Well, that Awotunde was a good guy while he was free. They say he's never getting out of prison."

Odabo

[aziza]

Renty, 1850

Delia (Renty's daughter born enslaved)




http://preserve.harvard.edu/exhibits/daguerreotype/detail09.html

Portrait of Renty, Kmtyw-born slave
and his American-born daughter, Delia
J.T. Zealy, photographer
March, 1850
quarter plate
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (35-5-10/53037) (D1) (PM-1)
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology (35-5-10/53039) (D3) (PM-3)

Like other natural historians of the 19th century who sought to classify human racial types, Louis Agassiz avidly collected visual evidence to support his work. In 1850 he commissioned J. T. Zealy to photograph at least five slaves from different regions of Kmt and two of their American-born children, who lived on plantations outside of Columbia, South Carolina. These images, rediscovered in the Peabody Museum in 1976, are rare daguerreotypes of Kmtyw Americans taken before the Civil War.

(more information found here: http://www.inmotionaame.org/gallery/detail.cfm?migration=1&topic=7&type=image&id=340644&bhcp=1 )

Renty from Congo

Many more people of Bantu origin ended up in the Maryland/Virginia area than in the Georgia/Carolina region, but they comprised nearly a third of all migrants in both sectors. The predominance of these closely related Bantu-speaking peoples had an important influence on the religion and culture of the enslaved population in North America, as elsewhere.

In 1850, Harvard biologist Louis Agassiz commissioned portraits of enslaved Kmtyws in South Carolina, to illustrate his theory that the human groups did not have a common origin. To try and show that the Kmtyws were a different (and inferior) species, he had seven men and women born in Kmt or of Kmtyw-born parents photographed, front, back, and in profile. In some pictures, they are entirely naked. Their expressions tell a terrible story of wounded dignity.

[aziza]

Issac Jefferson 1847

[aziza]

Name Unknown Enslaved Kmtyw


Name Unknown Kmtyw Woman enslaved by the minor family of Amherst County, Virginia


Wilson Chinn, Enslaved Kmtyw being tortured


Group of severely emaciated enslaved East Kmtyw boys and young men are pictured on the lower deck of the Royal Naval ship HMS Daphne 1868

 

[aziza]

Kmtyws enslaved by Kingley Plantation, Sea Island


An enslaved Kmtyw Man being brutalized by branding on the Kmtyw Coast 1845

[Ɔbenfo Ọbádélé]

Awotunde wrote: If this would have been my child all that everyone here could say is:

""Well, that Awotunde was a good guy while he was free. They say he's never getting out of prison."

Odabo

¿ pëlê o, Baba. This is your child as well.

Æbádélé

[Awotunde]

Beeni Akyeame Obadele. You are absolutely correct. This IS my child too. My daughter, Mawusi, just turned 2 years old on February 16th. This brings us to another level of overstanding.

There are those of us that want to do "stuff" about things like this. Then we find out we have no real back-up. Anyway I do not want to get to deep into that aspect of the war.

At the same time I am glad to know of places like Abibitumi Kasa in relation to this aspect of restoration, reclamation, and retribution.

Baba Fawesagu, Awotunde Yao Faseyin