#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...
The Caribbean Windrush Generation, Colonialism and the Idea of Home
I was born in Jamaica, a former colony of Great Britain. When I was growing up, I did not really understand what that meant. I knew only that we spoke English and Jamaican patois but English was the official language. I knew too that we learned a lot about British...
Headed to Savannah with The Weeping Time and Feature in the Savannah Morning News
This week is the anniversary of the auction that I wrote about in my book, The Weeping Time: Memory and the Largest Slave Auction in American History.The auction took place March 2-3, 1859. Many thanks to Kristopher Munroe for his thoughtful treatment of the book and...
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)
