American History 101 and other poems By Brenda Cave James
Because we could all use some poetry right now… American History 101 America is not burning. America is boiling… bubbling up in hot mess a steamy, smelly cauldron like when Mammy stewed and stirred round bed clothes after sickness- or stench from...
VIOLENCE IS NEVER THE ANSWER: THE ANSWER IS YOU…AND REPARATIONS!
Martin Luther King Jr and Fannie Lou Hamer This week was a week of pain and tears. To watch a fellow human being crushed to death in real time as bystanders begged for his life is a pain that no words can truly describe…. but still, I have hope. As some of you know, I...
The Morning After The Weeping Time
Two years ago, I wrote a book called The Weeping Time about the largest slave auction in American history. This experience which the enslaved called The Weeping Time took place in Savannah, Georgia on two fateful days, March 2-3 in 1859. Today, we seem to be...
#Where are the Children: The Weeping Time Then and Now
Photo by Andrea Ricketts on unsplash.com My book, The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave auction in American History, (Cambridge University Press, 2017) opens with the story of an engaged couple separated from each other on the auction block. On March...
Anne C. Bailey and company write about race, slavery, refugees, diasporas, African American, Caribbean and African studies, human rights, history, and memory. We publish every weekend.
Find Anne C. Bailey's non-fiction book : The Weeping Time:
Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History (Beacon Press)
