Comments on: Muzzled wounds of slavery http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/01/muzzled_wounds_of_slavery.html black looks Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:47:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.2 By: ana http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/01/muzzled_wounds_of_slavery.html#comment-92719 ana Sat, 26 Jan 2008 13:56:52 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/01/muzzled_wounds_of_slavery.html#comment-92719 Great tribute to Anastacia. Many Afro Brazilians venerate Anastacia. I visited Salvador, Bahia years ago and noticed that many Afro Brazilians keep an altar in honor of their beloved saint. Afro Brazilinas really don't care if the church accepts Anastacia or not. They also keep at the entrance of their door statues of elderly blacks referred to as the ancestors. Many of the homes have altars with candles always burning to the ancestors and the African deities. The stories of our ancestors remained hidden in the memories of the people of the African Diaspora.My very own spirituality not only comes from God but is also reinforced by the strength and power of the Atlantic Ocean, the very place where our ancestors travailed and perished on their voyage to the Americas(the Middle Passage).Too many of us are unaware of the many places where we can gather forces and strength to win vitory not only for ourselves but for our beloved ancestors.The will of God and our ancestors are one now. We are never alone. Cordiales Saludos. Great tribute to Anastacia. Many Afro Brazilians venerate Anastacia. I visited Salvador, Bahia years ago and noticed that many Afro Brazilians keep an altar in honor of their beloved saint. Afro Brazilinas really don’t care if the church accepts Anastacia or not. They also keep at the entrance of their door statues of elderly blacks referred to as the ancestors. Many of the homes have altars with candles always burning to the ancestors and the African deities.

The stories of our ancestors remained hidden in the memories of the people of the African Diaspora.My very own spirituality not only comes from God but is also reinforced by the strength and power of the Atlantic Ocean, the very place where our ancestors travailed and perished on their voyage to the Americas(the Middle Passage).Too many of us are unaware of the many places where we can gather forces and strength to win vitory not only for ourselves but for our beloved ancestors.The will of God and our ancestors are one now. We are never alone.

Cordiales Saludos.

]]> By: JoachimGraf.com http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/01/muzzled_wounds_of_slavery.html#comment-92688 JoachimGraf.com Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:59:13 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/01/muzzled_wounds_of_slavery.html#comment-92688 Sculpure about black women slavery I have found in Black looks blog an article about Anastácia Escrava, an Angolian princess, who was kidnapped and forced to become the mistress of ... Sculpure about black women slavery
I have found in Black looks blog an article about Anastácia Escrava, an Angolian princess, who was kidnapped and forced to become the mistress of …

]]> By: Joachim Graf: Dialektische Kunst http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/01/muzzled_wounds_of_slavery.html#comment-92687 Joachim Graf: Dialektische Kunst Fri, 25 Jan 2008 09:56:12 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/01/muzzled_wounds_of_slavery.html#comment-92687 <strong>Sculpure about black women slavery...</strong> I have found in Black looks blog an article about Anastácia Escrava, an Angolian princess, who was kidnapped and forced to become the mistress of her white master in Brazil. Anastacia resisted her capture, her rape and abuse and for that she was force... Sculpure about black women slavery…

I have found in Black looks blog an article about Anastácia Escrava, an Angolian princess, who was kidnapped and forced to become the mistress of her white master in Brazil. Anastacia resisted her capture, her rape and abuse and for that she was force…

]]> By: cherynne http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/01/muzzled_wounds_of_slavery.html#comment-92680 cherynne Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:39:48 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/01/muzzled_wounds_of_slavery.html#comment-92680 Karasch, Mary C. "Anastacia and the Slave Women of Rio de Janeiro" in Paul Lovejoy (ed.), Africans in Bondange. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. http://www.smu.ca/academic/arts/history/barbosa.html Karasch, Mary C. “Anastacia and the Slave Women of Rio de Janeiro” in Paul Lovejoy (ed.), Africans in Bondange. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1986.

http://www.smu.ca/academic/arts/history/barbosa.html

]]> By: cherynne http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/01/muzzled_wounds_of_slavery.html#comment-92679 cherynne Thu, 24 Jan 2008 22:38:29 +0000 http://www.blacklooks.org/2008/01/muzzled_wounds_of_slavery.html#comment-92679 the sculptures and the poem are very powerful. especially i think because they connect our individual present day pain with our historical collective pain.it is so important to reclaim our her-stories ones which white male european "civilization" has tried to erase. one of the most powerful and damaging tools of colonialism was and continues to be the negation of our pasts, languages, cultures and ancestors.we must keep the memories alive , the dignity of a past,the right to exist in all our diversity. the sculptures and the poem are very powerful. especially i think because they connect our individual present day pain with our historical collective pain.it is so important to reclaim our her-stories ones which white male european “civilization” has tried to erase. one of the most powerful and damaging tools of colonialism was and continues to be the negation of our pasts, languages, cultures and ancestors.we must keep the memories alive , the dignity of a past,the right to exist in all our diversity.

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