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A Journey along the Atlantic Slave Route by Saidiya Hartman — 1. The Path of Strangers

“So then how might one write the disaster, the terrible history carried in our gestures, residing in our bodies, marked on our flesh, etched onto our retinas?”

As the popularity of African dishes rises round the world, most of the conversation has focused on their appearance, spiciness, and recipes, more intensely on ownership and appropriation, but barely on how they came about.

Hesketh, which sailed out of Liverpool and delivered slaves to Saint Kitts in 1761, to the 566-ton Parr, another Liverpool ship that sailed in the 1790s. Ships comparable in size to the Hesketh were designed to carry as few as six pleasure passengers; refitted as a slaver, the Hesketh transported a crew plus thirty Africans. The Parr, on the other hand, carried a crew of 100 and a cargo of as many as 700 slaves. Most ships—nicknamed Guineamen, after the Gulf of Guinea on the west coast of...

about tonight. >> teenagers gathered in the woods to watch a pit bullfight. kelly mcpherson has the story. >> reporter: meet candy, shes the latest victim of dog fighting in maryland. >> underneath is where her skin is so bad. >> this one is so god, it had been used as bait in the training. >> reporter: you can see the mark above her eye is likely a fresh bite wound. a visible sign, a sign of mall nourishment. she and another dog were being fought by teenagers. >> its just terrible. i ...