Study
what you need.
John H. Clarke
Story
what you need to develop
Wekesa Madzimoyo
Power
Responsible handlers of power.
John H. Clarke
The Gun
For Whom?
?
Create
Repeat Attracted to
Times
Does it Make Black Sense?
Many, Many
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Enemy Lines
Does it Make Black Sense?
Behind
DI-MBS?
Does it Make Black Sense?
Miles
Does it Make Black Sense?
500
On Her Head
DI-MBS?
Reward
$100 - $12K - 40K
Miles
Does it Make Black Sense?
Fugitive African Act
Africans
the captors
Africans
• Why Would We
?
DI-MBS?
Does it Make Black Sense?
?
?
Morality In service of Oppression
Morality In service of Oppression
Morality In service of Oppression
Morality In service of Oppression
DI-MBS?
Does it Make Black Sense?
Another Myth
It was her
Mind’s Eye
Black Woman Black Child Black Man?
Jacob Lawrence
Posse
Paul Collins
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Healer-Builder
Warrior
Preparation
UBO
No Universal Black Orphan!
Dawud Anyabwile
Guy Sims
UBO = Black Character W/ No Family No Community No Culture = No Mission & Direction
The Super Hero Trap:
No super powers? • I Give up, or • Satisfy myself with a fantasy victory
Ordinary brother doing extra- ordinary things.
• Grand Mother o Modesty • Parents: o Harriet Greene o Ben Ross
Araminta Harriet Tubman -Family
• Sisters: o Linah (1808) o Soph (1813) o Mariah Ritty (1811) o Araminta (1820) o Rachel (1825)
Araminta Harriet Tubman -Family
• Brothers: o Robert (1816) o Ben (1823) o Henry (1830) o Moses (1832
Araminta Harriet Tubman -Family
No Universal Black Orphan!
Ordinary sister, doing extra-ordinary things.
• Husbands o John Tubman o Nelson Davis • Daughter: o Gertie Davis
Araminta Harriet Tubman -Family
1820 / 1822
Big Mama - Modesty
Tugaloo College Mural
1791 "Benjamin Banne -ka's Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia Almanac.".
1811, Jan. 8 – 400-500 Afrikans revolt in Louisiana.
1805, Ayiti Revolution
1816, Paul Cuffee (Kofi) transports a group of Afrikans to Sierra Leone
1816, Andrew Jackson attacks Negro Fort killing 300 Africans (Gulla)and Native (Seminole) soldiers
Maybe the enjoyed that Ole’ Ringshout that Modesty loved so much
4 lashed before Susan at breakfast
@5
Watch Muskrat Traps
Cook
@6
@7
“I stayed there from Friday until next Tuesday, fighting with the little pigs for scraps…
HT
“So now Harriet would come home beaten up, whimpering, muttering her hate and vengance, praying, showing too much wisdom for a child not yet in her teens” Conrad
Took a Blow for Freedom
@11
The
The A-B Conversation
“When I crossed the line, I looked at my hands to see if I was the same person. There was such glory in everything; the sun came like gold through the trees, and over the fields, and I was free like I was in Heaven.”
I was free; but I was a stranger in a strange land, no one to welcome me. My father, my mother, my brothers, my sisters were in Maryland. I was free and they should be free!
Ordinary sister doing extra-ordinary things
Warrior Behind Enemy Lines
Assata
May 2, 1973 • Black Panther Party and BLA members Assata Shakur, Sundiata Acoli, Zayd Malik Shakur stopped by NJ Police for broken tailight • Assata shot twice by NJ State Police • She and Sundiata Acoli arrested. Zayd Malik Shakur killed. • Assata convicted of murdering NJ State Police that she couldn’t have due to her wounds • Assata abused before and while in prison
Assata
Why are they relevant to a story about Harriet Tubman?
Assata
• Embody Tubman’s Legacy • Part of a movement for liberation • ?
Sekou Odinga
Write the letter for him.
Write the letter for her
Circle of Culture
Jonathan Jackson & Soledad Brothers
Miltary Operation?
Paul Collins
My Sister
Captivity without submission!
The Choice
The
My Brothers
Her Help?
The Help?
William Still
George DeBaptist
George DeBaptiste, the man who prompted the barber’s elaborate escape, who executed it, who ensured that even if the fugitive’s party was dis-covered it was carrying enough firepower to defend itself
Get Out!
George DeBaptiste, the man who prompted the barber’s elaborate escape, who executed it, who ensured that even if the fugitive’s party was dis- covered it was carrying enough firepower to defend itself
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The Dover Eight
Samuel Green
Posse, she needs you now
Paul Collins
• The Gun • WHB Preparation • Warrior Behind Enemy Lines • Fermenting the Civil War • The Civil War (Building) • Araminta The Healer
Fermenting The Civil War
Why?
Brown had hopes that the local captured Africans would join the raid and through the raid’s success weapons would be supplied to slaves and freedom fighters throughout the country; this was not to be.
Troy, NY
Charles Nalle
April 12, 1861
“Civil” War
The Trust Builder
Several months after the Civil War began in 1861, Governor Andrew of Massachusetts – a passionate abolitionist – recruited Tubman to join with Union forces occupying Beaufort, SC, to provide support as a spy and scout. Upon her arrival, she was provided a military pass, access to Secret Service funds, established relationships with local Africans for the collection of information, and rapidly recruited a team of scouts who knew the region intimately. She was tasked in 1862 - 1863 with mapping the region and identifying Confederate outposts and vulnerabilities, which bore fruit when a black unit of Union soldiers – using intelligence provided by Tubman – conducted successful raids throughout the region.
DUNEDIN It was 1864 and the moon was full when the Maple Leaf steamed down the St. Johns River carrying Union troops and equipment to Jacksonville. Lurking in the murky waters below: a dozen mines or "torpedoes" made from wooden kegs filled with 70 pounds of black powder. When the transport vessel struck one, the explosion ripped apart the ship and killed four soldiers. The vessel sank and with it thousands of artifacts to be preserved in a muddy tomb for discovery 120 years later. Dunedin Historical Museum of a traveling exhibit called "The Maple Leaf: An American Civil War Shipwreck."
“Don’t you think we Colored people are entitled to some of the credit for that exploit… We weakened the Rebels… Took away 756 Africans, and nearly all of them have joined the Colored regiments here.”
The Healer
Purge Falsehoods that come out of the abused self.
Emancipation without Freedom!
The illusion-delusion dance begins!
Submission Without Surrender!
Purging the Falsehoods that come from the ABUSED-SELF
4 STAGES
God, Clean Us
God, Heal Them
God, Kill Them
God, Get Behind Me Strenthen My Blow
Circle of Culture
Resources
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