Shakimono Veras
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I was google searching literature (books) about the Arab Slave trade and came across this. I couldn’t stop reading it. I could feel and see it as If I was there, and the energy level was sooo amplified! I really appreciate the sacrifices of theses ancestors, and the countless others who’s voices are heard through the participants in this book. After reading, it helped to to tap in and really appreciate the life and freedom that I am living as an African American woman; free from the worries that my ancestors had. What I don’t understand is how some people from the African Diaspora, and some Europeans can TRY to undermine the trauma within the descendants of the Enslaved. Or, the worst of them all, how some from the Diaspora try to deny their blackness and enslavement during the Black Holocaust. This was the NEGROE AMERICAN (which means “Black” in Spanish) experience of slavery, so it’s obvious that this was how it was globally as well, with some “slaves” having better experiences than others, as vice versa. Great read. Will he utilizing this in my curriculum. Ashe’ Shakimono She who dances with the spirit of our ancestors
Julius Caesar
Read this, even if just the sample. One of the people was over 120 years old, this is history in its rawest form.Not from the perspective of historians but of the people.
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