“The more women onboard a slave ship, the more likely a revolt” - Rebecca Hall
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Garner
… inspired Toni Morrison to write her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved (1987). Morrison also wrote the libretto for the opera Margaret Garner(2005), composed by Richard Danielpour.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beloved_(novel)
“ Song of the Exiled.”
- Sweet Honey in the Rock
(1987 live)
Song of the Exiled
They cut off my voice
So I grew two voices
In two different tongues
My songs I pour
They took away my sun
Two brand new suns
Like resplendent drums, I am playing
Today I am playing
Isolated I was from all my people
My twin songs are returning like an echo
And despite the darkness of this exile
My poem sets fire against a mirror.
Shabna Begum welcomed Lloyd’s beginning to do some of the work to acknowledge that their wealth, power and influence are derived from slavery. However “Lloyd’s needs to address issues, including its 21.5% pay gap for black employees, not just through more ‘inclusion and diversity’ but through active anti-racist policies that address inequalities in income and pay now.”
Review of Wake - the Hidden History of Women-led slave revolts - Rebecca Hall
https://africasacountry.com/2025/03/the-forgotten-women-of-slave-revolts/
Atlantic Slave Trade Data Base https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/database
Bibliography rebhallphd.org
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