One of the first early leaders to emerge is a person known to history as bookmen, sometimes called duddy bookman. Dubois describes him officiating alongside an old african woman. And then he says, at the ceremony, bookman apparently proclaimed. Now, quoting book, the god of the white man calls him to commit crimes. Our god asks only good works of us. But this god, who is so good, orders revenge. He will direct our hands. He will aid us throw away the image of the god ofThe whites, who thirsts for our tears and listen to the voice of liberty that speaks in the heart of all of us.
The Atlantic Slave Trade mixes centuries of human bondage with violence, economics, commerce, geo-political competition, liberty, morality, injustice, revolution, tragedy and bloody reckonings. That sounds like a lot, yet this show merely scratches the surface of this enormous subject.