Healing and the trauma of centuries [newday.co.tt]

Rafael Maravilla(PACEs Connection Staff) 6/22/204:00 AM

By Dara Healy, Trinidad and Tobago Newsday, June 19, 2020

A Conversation about Race

“Whilst she was putting on the new osnaburgs (a coarse cloth used for work clothes) in which we were to be sold, she said, in a sorrowful voice...'See, I am shrouding my poor children; what a task for a mother!'...the other slaves could say nothing to comfort us; they could only weep and lament with us. When I left my dear little brothers and the house in which I had been brought up, I thought my heart would burst.”

– Mary Prince, enslaved woman from Bermuda

MARY PRINCE was sold along with two of her sisters to raise funds for their master’s wedding. Mary’s story of separation from family was familiar, repeated wherever Africans were enslaved. “I had a constant dread that her mistress would be in want of money and sell my dear wife,” recalled a freed man from the US.

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