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The #MiddlePassage and #AtlanticSystem #slavery were so brutal that when, on #ThisDayInHistory in 1737, a slave ship arrived in #StKitts with 251 slaves, 100 of the men jumped overboard. The English crew tried to save their 'cargo' but 33 evaded 'rescue' and sank.

A chiaroscuro oil painting showing enslaved Africans crowded in the dim hold of a slave ship. A single shaft of daylight from an open hatch illuminates their weary faces, revealing anguish and endurance. Beyond the hatch, a calm ocean and a distant ship contrast the darkness within.

“The shrieks of the women, groans of the dying”—Equiano’s words turn the slave ship into hell afloat. Not cargo. Not commodity. Human horror. #Holloway #MiddlePassage

Side-lit, square still life in chiaroscuro: a cracked earthenware vessel splits down the middle, glossy tropical leaves rising from the fissure as peppercorn-like spice grains spill onto a worn stone surface. In the foreground lie two snapped pieces of a rusted iron rod. In the hazy background, a faint silhouette of an auction block hangs in mist. Earth tones—clay, bronze rust, deep green—cast long shadows toward the viewer.

Arrival meant total sensory rupture—foreign tongues, trees, food—then the strip, the poke, the stare. Humiliation was the first price paid in the slave market. #Holloway #MiddlePassage

After the Middle Passage, traders “fattened” Africans in quarantine—not to heal, but to sell. Oiled skin, regained weight: not care, but cosmetics for the auction block. #Holloway #MiddlePassage

**Alt text — “Quarantine-yard inventory” (ScorpyunStyle)** A cracked wooden paddle, pale cedar, lies at the center of a flat, sun-bleached yard. Its split groove leaks indigo crust and dried rice — the remnants of infection measured like cargo. In the foreground, a rusted iron fever-tag ring lies broken, hinge snapped, symbolizing the collapse of parity and diagnosis. Behind it, the ghostly outline of a coastal warehouse fades into salt haze — life dissolved to protect value. Palette of cedar white, rust, indigo, and chalked lime-wash grey; no figures, only the logic of disease as commerce.

Enslaved Africans quarantined not for care—but to protect their market value after surviving smallpox and cholera on slave ships. Health as inventory control. #Holloway #MiddlePassage

**Alt text:** A cracked rectangular basalt slab lies on a weathered blue-gray surface, divided into two equal halves. On one side are pale ivory beads, on the other, indigo blue beads—symbolizing loss and imbalance. A frayed hemp rope with a rusted lead weight rests across the foreground, suggesting a broken measuring line. The background fades into a hazy horizon of sea and sky, where blue and gray dissolve together.

Of 12.5M Africans shipped, only 390K came to the U.S.—3%. Brazil got 4.8M. Yet U.S. slavery dominates the story. The archive remembers the few; the ocean holds the rest. #MiddlePassage #BeyondThe13Colonies

2.5 million Africans never reached the Americas. Their bodies rest on the ocean floor—their names lost, their stories silenced. The Atlantic is a mass grave without markers. #MiddlePassage #ArchivalViolence

“The deck resembled a slaughterhouse.” Falconbridge, a ship’s surgeon, bore witness to the Middle Passage’s industrialized horror. Not imagination—reality. #Holloway #MiddlePassage

Waiting for the US government to call the flights carrying kidnapped people from the streets of the United States to foreign work camps, the “Middle Passage”. #middlepassage

Ain't That A Shame (Caught Up In The System / Matrix / Game) Part Three Check the Monday morning mathematics that are being dropped; but thought and fashion police say it's all game! They wanted to see your dud...

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ancestral ghosts moan
bones on the Atlantic beach
leave Motherland trails

#senyrū #poetry
#dailyhaikuprompt beach, leave

#image Ghanaian artist Kwame Atoko-Bamfo: Ancestors drown during the #MiddlePassage

📸 Scenes from the Port Marker ceremony in Bristol, RI.

The Middle Passage Project is dedicated to commemorating ports where captive Africans first arrived in the Americas.

🔗 Learn more: www.middlepassageproject.org

#MiddlePassage #FreedomShip #History #Remembrance #SNCC #PortMarkers

How do y'all know she's 400? Did she tell you that? Did she provide firsthand accounts of the #MiddlePassage? How did y'all find her?

Better yet....leave her where she is. Don't bother her.

The sea remembers.
Not all who crossed chose to.
#DayOfTheSeafarer #MiddlePassage #BlackRemembrance

@princessjennifer.bsky.social Since my first crossing in 1986, when I am in the Atlantic Ocean, I always honor the ancestors who survived the evil Middle Passage, and remember those murdered at sea who bodies were cast overboard!

We will Never forget! Always Remember!

#ancestors
#middlepassage

I have knowledge and wisdom from my ancestors. #middlepassage #diaspora

The Middle Passage: Millions of enslaved Africans endured horrific conditions during the Middle Passage. Despite unimaginable suffering, their resilience laid the foundation for cultures that thrive today.
#BlackHistoryMonth #Resilience #RememberTheJourney #middlepassage

B&W photo: cross section of claustrophobic arrangement of human cargo on a slave ship.

"Their so-called 'death march' was the first leg of a long and merciless sojourn."

#middlepassage #slavetrade
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Miscelánea: revista de estudios ingleses y norteamericanos Neo-Victorian fiction has been concerned with historically oppressed and traumatised characters from the 1990s onwards (Llewellyn 2008). More recently, neo-Victorianism on screen has shifted its attention to the figure of the perpetrator and their unresolved guilt, as in the TV series Penny Dreadful (Logan 2014-2016) or Taboo (Knight, Hardy and Hardy 2017-present). However, perpetrator trauma is an under-theorised field in the humanities (Morag 2018), neo-Victorian studies included. This article analyses Taboo as a neo-Victorian postcolonial text that explores the trauma of its protagonist James Delaney, an imperial perpetrator who transported and sold African slaves in the Middle Passage for the East India Company. Although the series is not set in the Victorian period, neo-Victorianism is here understood as fiction expanding beyond the historical boundaries of the Victorian era and that presents the long nineteenth century as synonymous with the empire (Ho 2012: 4). Thus, I argue that postcolonial texts like Taboo should be considered neo-Victorian since they are set in the nineteenth century to respond to and contest (neo-)imperial practices. However, neo-Victorian postcolonialism offers ambivalent representations of the British Empire, as it simultaneously critiques and reproduces its ideologies (Ho 2012; Primorac 2018). This article examines the ways in which Taboo follows this contradictory pattern, since it seemingly denounces the imperial atrocity of the slave trade through Delaney’s perpetrator trauma, while simultaneously perpetuating it through his future colonizing trip to the Americas. Hence, Delaney is portrayed as an anti-hero in the series, given that he is both the enemy and the very product of the British Empire.

Are you a fan of 📺@TabooFX ⁉️

Then you should read Dina Pedro's (@UV_EG) article on postcolonial (mis)representations and perpetrator trauma in that TV series.
#Trauma #Slavery #NeoVictorianism #ImperialGothic #MiddlePassage

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Charles Johnson. #MiddlePassage

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2/2 💖Sue Lanser: in linking the use of Marie Antoinette in constructing whiteness against indigenous nations & enslaved Africans in New England. She even references New England's involvement in the #MiddlePassage including the Sally,...

#MiddlePassage Marker up in Camden, NJ! https://nyti.ms/2iaXhqN

#nationalnonprofitday My wk w/ @MPMarkers focuses on #middlepassage survivors & their descendants in New England http://www.middlepassageproject.org/

New @MPMarkers recognizing the #middlepassage, its survivors & their descendants in Galveston TX #remenberancestors www.facebook.com/permalink.php

Elliot #slaverypublichistory: @NMAAHC strives to emphasize the humanity of the #MiddlePassage 1/2

Black: Not knowing the names of those on #MiddlePassage is a remnant of an enslaved mind, it is imagination in bondage #slaverypublichistory

#slaverypublichistory Black argues that black theology starts with seeking a divine reason for the #middlePassage

Researching The Coming used #c18 texts like Falconbridge, scholars like Rediker & how #MiddlePassage changed the ocean #slaverypublichistory

A. Black: we've are comfortable w/ dehumanizing African people of #MiddlePassage. They aren't "cargo"; they have names #slaverypublichistory

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I am hoping to check out this #MiddlePassage Historical Marker while in Fredericksburg for #ecasecs16 http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=97364