S5E42: "Black In Blues" & Jamaican Maroons

Описание: This is another book share. In this episode, I share Dr. Imani Perry's, "Black in Blues: How a Color Tells the Story of My People." The third chapter is called, Blue Goes Down." It talks about the settlement of 15,000 Black Americans to Liberia, West Africa, from 1822 to 1861.

I connect this with Gloria Ann Wesley's book, "Africville: An African Nova Scotian Community Is Demolished-and Fights Back." I talk specifically about the section on 600 Jamaican Maroons escaping slavery into the mountains. They resisted so much that they got kicked out of Jamaica, and sent to Nova Scotia, Canada. Jamaican Maroons were an important part of Nova Scotian history. They helped build Government House and Citadel Hill, as well as served in the militia. Maroon women supplied berries, eggs, chickens, brooms, and baskets to the Halifax Market. After petitioning the Canadian government to return to Jamaica, they were sent to Sierra Leone, West Africa. Like Dr. Perry, I ask what it means for Black people in the Americas to return back to Africa.

I cut the video short because my cats are on one today. They must still think it's Aquarius season. (Maybe, it still is).