tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post1790816455457627197..comments2024-03-28T07:58:41.643-04:00Comments on pancocojams: "In That Great Gettin' Up Mornin' (Spiritual lyrics, information, and video)Azizi Powellhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-19999273105093258182018-04-07T17:41:38.586-04:002018-04-07T17:41:38.586-04:00Greetings, The Morning Dove.
Here's the hyper...Greetings, The Morning Dove.<br /><br />Here's the hyperlink for that article that you referenced in your comment: <a href="https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/misguided-focus-1619-beginning-slavery-us-damages-our-understanding-american-history-180964873/" rel="nofollow">https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/misguided-focus-1619-beginning-slavery-us-damages-our-understanding-american-history-180964873/</a>.<br /><br />Here's a brief portion of that article:<br /><br />The Misguided Focus on 1619 as the Beginning of Slavery in the U.S. Damages Our Understanding of American History<br /><br />The year the first enslaved Africans were brought to Jamestown is drilled into students’ memories, but overemphasizing this date distorts history<br /><br />By Michael Guasco<br />smithsonian.com <br />September 13, 2017<br /><br />..."There are important historical correctives to the misplaced marker of 1619 that can help us ask better questions about the past. Most obviously, 1619 was not the first time Africans could be found in an English Atlantic colony, and it certainly wasn’t the first time people of African descent made their mark and imposed their will on the land that would someday be part of the United States. As early as May 1616, blacks from the West Indies were already at work in Bermuda providing expert knowledge about the cultivation of tobacco. There is also suggestive evidence that scores of Africans plundered from the Spanish were aboard a fleet under the command of Sir Francis Drake when he arrived at Roanoke Island in 1586. In 1526, enslaved Africans were part of a Spanish expedition to establish an outpost on the North American coast in present-day South Carolina. Those Africans launched a rebellion in November of that year and effectively destroyed the Spanish settlers’ ability to sustain the settlement, which they abandoned a year later. Nearly 100 years before Jamestown, African actors enabled American colonies to survive, and they were equally able to destroy European colonial ventures.<br /><br />These stories highlight additional problems with exaggerating the importance of 1619. Privileging that date and the Chesapeake region effectively erases the memory of many more African peoples than it memorializes. The “from-this-point-forward” and “in-this-place” narrative arc silences the memory of the more than 500,000 African men, women, and children who had already crossed the Atlantic against their will, aided and abetted Europeans in their endeavors, provided expertise and guidance in a range of enterprises, suffered, died, and – most importantly – endured. That Sir John Hawkins was behind four slave-trading expeditions during the 1560s suggests the degree to which England may have been more invested in African slavery than we typically recall. Tens of thousands of English men and women had meaningful contact with African peoples throughout the Atlantic world before Jamestown. In this light, the events of 1619 were a bit more yawn-inducing than we typically allow."...<br />-snip-<br />I found the entire article interesting and encourage pancocojams visitors to read it.<br /><br />Best wishes and One Love!Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-81467600486891438842018-04-06T18:07:24.548-04:002018-04-06T18:07:24.548-04:00Greetings again.
Thank you so much. I too agree t...Greetings again.<br /><br />Thank you so much. I too agree that Black people have been in North America prior to 1619. Our focus is on the diaspora group that arrives in 1619 and becomes the group to eventually 'test' the new system of democracy in the modern world. Here is an article that I find instructive - https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/misguided-focus-1619-beginning-slavery-us-damages-our-understanding-american-history-180964873/.<br /><br />Best wishes to you and One Love also!The Morning Dovehttps://www.honor1619-2019.info/noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-76422826661072471962018-03-31T15:55:42.729-04:002018-03-31T15:55:42.729-04:00Greetings Sister Veronica Adams-Cooper (The Mornin...Greetings Sister Veronica Adams-Cooper (The Morning Dove).<br /><br />I sincerely appreciate your comments and look forward to spending time on your website. I didn't realize that 2019 would mark 400 years that Black people have been in the land now known as the United States, counting 1619 as the starting date (although I agree with some who have written that it's likely that Black people have been in North America prior to 1619.<br /><br />Here's the hyperlink to your website for those who are interested in visiting it: <a href="https://www.honor1619-2019.info/" rel="nofollow">https://www.honor1619-2019.info/</a> ARTriumph Historical Society for The Artesian Renaissance.<br /><br />Best wishes to you and One Love! Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-87150392968384315832018-03-31T10:48:35.660-04:002018-03-31T10:48:35.660-04:00Good morning Sister Mother Azizi Powell!
Thank yo...Good morning Sister Mother Azizi Powell!<br /><br />Thank you so much for your dedicated life as a Spiritual Guide, Mother, Grandmother, Public Servant, and Griot-Historian!<br /><br />How awesome that I found your website this morning. I recently began rebuilding the website for ARTriumph Historical Society for The Artesian Renaissance whose mission is to herald in a new season that honors the distinct 400 years of African American from 1619-2019. <br /><br />Here is the site - honor1619-2019.info <br /><br />In spring 2014, I was divinely inspired to pen the words of The Artesian Renaissance. Then, in 2016 I crafted the words into a poem. <br /><br />Earlier this week when I resumed work on the site, I was led to refer to two songs in African American history that are pathways to the Artesian Renaissance, "Dat Great Gittin Up Mornin" and "People Get Ready."<br /><br />This morning in seeing your site, I found the best site to share important history about the historical legacy of this Negro Spiritual.<br /><br />Thank you for sharing such a wealth of knowledge! <br /><br />Veronica Adams-Cooper<br />The Morning Dove<br /><br />The Morning Dovehttp://honor1619-2019.infonoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-26256549332137624562015-05-08T07:51:13.897-04:002015-05-08T07:51:13.897-04:00Thanks, anonymous for sharing this rendition of th...Thanks, anonymous for sharing this rendition of this Spiritual with us. <br /><br />Here's the hyperlink to that video: <a href="https://chapel.duke.edu/events/final-sunday-service-duke-chapel-restoration-1430665200" rel="nofollow"> https://chapel.duke.edu/events/final-sunday-service-duke-chapel-restoration-1430665200</a>.Azizi Powellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14963772326145910073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5893219718076521675.post-42631948780169798962015-05-07T21:45:43.113-04:002015-05-07T21:45:43.113-04:00There is a great performance by the Duke Chapel Ch...There is a great performance by the Duke Chapel Choir. Go to http://chapel.duke.edu/events/final-sunday-service-duke-chapel-restoration-1430665200. Move the slide to 1:05:00 and play. This is part of the May 3, 2015 complete service. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com