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Marlene Dumas - Artworks & Biography | David Zwirner
davidzwirner.comAphra Behn’s 1678 novel Oroonoko.
Richard Amory • Song of the Loon (Little Sister's Classics)
In those years, the Company of the Indies, a French corporation that managed the empire’s colonies, controlled the slave trade in the Gulf South. Over six thousand Africans, after enduring the Middle Passage, arrived in Mobile, Biloxi, and New Orleans. After Spain took control of Louisiana, in 1762, another four thousand odd Africans arrived. They
... See moreImani Perry • South to America: A Journey Below the Mason-Dixon to Understand the Soul of a Nation
My point is that one's social and historical
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
was at the Lord's Table but whether he was really present at the slave's cabin, whether slaves could expect Jesus to be with them as they tried to survive the cotton field, the whip, and the pistol.
James H. Cone • God of the Oppressed
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This conceptual duple reflected what W.E.B. Du Bois indelibly voiced in The Souls of Black Folk in 1903. “It is a peculiar sensation, this double-consciousness, this sense of always looking at one’s self through the eyes of others,” Du Bois wrote. He would neither “Africanize America” nor “bleach his Negro soul in a flood of white Americanism.”



