II
1. The
boat lands
2. as
all trade vessels
3. must ultimately do
4. It dropped anchor
5. in Havana
6. in San Juan
7. in the Virgin Islands
8. in Santa Domingo
9. in Haiti
10. in Trinidad and Tobago
11. The
ships came
12. they unloaded
13. the slaves
14. they unloaded the
15. sick lame
16. dehumanized shit
17. smeared and vomit
18. stained human
19. beings
20. some
survive inhumanity
21. they
lined them up for
22. inspection
23. some
people survive inhumanity
24. they
checked their teeth
25. inhumanity
knows no name
26. they
stripped their
27. clothing from them
28. inhumanity
knows no name
29. A
woman crying
30. she remembers a sailor
31. who forcibly knew
32. her
33. She sees his face
34. and smells the
35. rum
soaked beard
36. rum and salt pork
37. rum and fat
38. the stench
39. the foul smell of
40. rapine
lust
41. inhumanity
knows no name
42. sometimes
43. the
white man’s
44. lust
seems to
45. take
precedence over God’s will
46. inhumanity
knows no name
47. the
sound of the
48. lash the cracking
49. sound of oppression
50. subservience
and
51. obedience
52. rings
loud for
53. all the world
54. to
hear
55. inhumanity
knows no name
56. they bathe us
57. they clean our black bodies
58. they
scour the vomit and
59. dung from our
60. bodies
61. the
merchandise and
62. the property must
63. be preserved
64. a
good slave is worth
65. at
least 500 U.S. dollars
66. s
good slave is worth
67. at
least 100 British Pound Sterling
68. a
good slave is worth
69. at
least 200 Spanish pieces of
70. eight
71. a
good is worth
72. at
least 500 French livres
73. inhumanity
knows no name
74. even
babies are worth
75. money
76. children
are easy to
77. mold
control and enslave
78. one
can make slavery
79. a part of their
80. upbringing
81. They
bring a good price
82. some nobles prefer
83. the smaller blacks
84. they are almost like
85. pets
86. inhumanity knows no name
87. the majority will go to the
88. United States
89. “Cotton needs pickin so bad
90. Cotton needs pickin so bad
91. Cotton needs pickin so bad
92. I’m goin work all over
this
93. land”
94. inhumanity knows no name
95. this is the first auction block
96. of many
97. there they sell us
98. men
99. woman
100.
and children
101.
and this pain we must endure
102.
and this shame we must endure
103.
and this poverty of human spirit
104.
we must endure
105. inhumanity knows no name
106.
sources vary
107.
each historian sees a different
108.
bit of truth
109.
his own to hold*
110.
1,000,000
111. one says
112. 4,000,000 another
113. 10-12,000,000 still another
114. 40,000,000
115. and one who says
116. 100 million
117. how many died?
118. so many too many to tell
119. we fed the sharks in the sea
120. we were part of the food
121. chain
122. a way of providing
123. living things with
124. substance
125. an unnatural substance
126. human flesh
127. it was the will of the
128. white race
129. to fatten itself
130. off gold and
131. silver
132. they worshipped mammon
133. and forgot God
134. inhumanity knows no name
135. The good ship Jesus
136. came and got us
137. we lived in villages
138. towns and cities
139. in West Africa
140. The men from the
141. good ship Jesus
142. came bearing
143. irons and
144. shackles
145. for our legs
146. for our wrists
147. for our waists
148. Jesus
149. Jesus Jesus
150. where are
151. you
152. see the foul
153. hear forgotten
154. deeds
155. Jesus in your name
156. and the name of
157. Christianity
158. for the price of gold
159. Jesus
160. men bought and sold
161. Jesus
162. woman bought and sold
163. Jesus
164. children bought and sold
165. Jesus
166. The Vatican selling slaves
167. Jesus
168. The Pope getting rich off
169. black gold
170. Jesus
171. Jesus
172. Jesus
173. Jesus
174. Help me home
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