Branded with African Blood

ISBN-13: 9781466315877 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 382 str.

Leroy Kwame Frazier

Opis

This book describes the life of an African woman as she experiences the reluctant separation of her 9 years old daughter more than 230 years ago. It tells the story of the young African girl who becomes the grand matriarch of her family in the United States as a slave. The voice of the young African girl weeps as she speaks through her eternal soul to her great grandson (the author) about her struggles as a slave in the United States and her desperate desire to return to her African home and visit her kinfolks. She speaks about how she was prohibited by her slave masters and the unjust laws in a foreign land (the United States of America). She pleads with the author to make the trip back to her home in Ghana over two centuries later in her honor. He communed with God in his soul and hears many other African ancestors from the last ten centuries beckoning him to come home and connect with the rich ancestry and culture. He hears the calls of the living descendants of the ancestors saying come home. Prior to receiving the invitation from the soul of the Great grandmother, the author had been dealing with some identity issues inside his soul. He noticed that his White friends cherished their ancestral lineages. They appeared to connect themselves to their prosperous ancestry. He did not know much about his ancestry and that disturbed him. He was taught that Black people came from Africa. He attended college with students from Africa, the Caribbean, Central America, and South America and educated many of them in colleges and universities. He was curious if he had taught his international relatives unknowingly? The author accepted the invitation to visit Ghana from the soul of his Great Grandmother Adwoa. He wanted to meet her tribal members that lived there. These were the people that were related to his maternal great grandmother (Sarah Partee-Reed). He took one year to plan this historic visit. While preparing for the journey to Ghana to honor his Great Grandmother who had made the reluctant journey to the United States more than two centuries ago, the investigator asked himself a lot of questions. Why were Black people subjected to such harsh mistreatment such as slavery and all that came with it? Why did his family have to be subjected to such unkind mistreatments such as slavery and all that came with it? What was God's opinion on slavery? What was Jesus' standpoint on slavery? What was the view of popes, bishops, priests, pastors and deacons on slavery? What was the attitude of world leaders from various countries on slavery? Can slavery be better understood in a historical context? Who are his generational (distant) cousins and where are they now? Where does he go to find his international relatives? When the research is completed, will he know his family heritage and have a greater appreciation for it? What difference will this new knowledge make for his descendants? How will his life change as a result of knowing his family heritage? The author was journeying further and further into the unknown and unfamiliar and learning more and more as he traveled. He was sailing into uncharted waters where great discoveries lie. He was seeing the unknown and unfamiliar become the known and familiar moment by moment. His life continued to move from good to better to best to infinite day by day. He was expanding his territory of influence and operation. He was transcending barriers and limits. God became the things and advancements that he desired concerning Ghana. The author boarded a plane and traveled 6000 miles over the Atlantic Ocean to see what this calling and beckoning was all about. He left his lucrative professional career to answer this urgent call. He met and lived with his generational cousins in Africa and created an international movement of connecting kinships from two sides of the Atlantic Ocean.