A Full Cup of Sorrow: Recent Episodes
Amie Cox
Reflections about enslavement, enslavers, and forced labor farms, and my connection to each of them.
This is my reflection of how connections bridge generations through history, and what I can do to help restore the identities of the enslaved.
This is my reflection on connections I made between the Jewish experience during the Holocaust and the Africans on the Clotilda.
Sources:
Diouf, Sylviane A. Dreams of Africa in Alabama
Schloss, Eva. Eva's Story: a survivor's tale by the stepsister of Anne Frank
Smith, David Livingston. Less Than Human: why we demean, enslave, and exterminate others.
This is a reflection on how I saw myself as a young girl, but I was blind to who I really was until I learned the truth about my connection to enslavers.
Source:
The Johari Window, talk by Dr. Benturah C Morton, NEH Landmark Institute - From the Clotilda to Community: the History of Mobile, Alabama's Africatown
This is a reflection about how I first learned about enslavement, and how enslavers potentially viewed themselves.