car-goes

[A] CAR- GOES with descendants

This poem was written in commemoration of International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition August 23, 2002 - As the International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition is being worldwide celebrated today, UNESCO continuous implementing its Memory of the World Slave Trade Archives project, one of its many initiatives related to the slave trade. I tried to show the links between the nexus of the human condition... in Birmingham on the rea banks ambitious dissenters, zealots, an’ metal workers set to work without guild near a ring where bull deer were reared generations, centuries later came Austin wherever the car[here] goes migrant workers never forget bajan, kittian, Jamaican toiling at longbridge… nor scottish,welsh, english, polish, asian irish peoples plying their trades in the wake of the birth of an industrial heritage is was and still is going to B uk’s first black city taylor,sturge, wesley would smile at lloyds brindley’s glittering canals more miles than Venice never forget though the nameless orphans some offsprings of despised canal-boat dwellers except for those smuggled to Canada for adoption black country furnaces ports of Bristol, Liverpool cities like Manchester and London unto guinea coast and port royal xymaca (2) cargoes sugar coffee tobacco rum molasses cotton gold and ‘staple’ humans shackled; 90% of this trade orchestrated by mercantile giants in Liverpool, Bristol where also slavers, buccaneers and even privateers recruited openly sometimes in deception of those hired there…everywhere watts’ steam engines transferring more than technology, trade with ever attendant greed never before since cargoes virgin vistas witnessed such wanton pillage man made flames blood-letting of innocent and guilty parties on all sides slate from mountain tops of wales ferried along worcester carnal to trade with ‘de indans’ restraining irons…groating pudding maize cutlery..pottery… finery for the mistresses nails, pig iron, coal, blankets to trade with ‘de bandits’ paid for by god fearing enterprising forward thinking philanthropic scientists who dared to query.. as albion Jacobins…lunar friends Unitarian dreamers toying and fermenting Sugar chocolate coated oats Bullets, medals, coins etal supporting far away Harriet Tudman; listening To discourses on Equality, Dignity, A human’s right to liberty; The likes of Equiano Francis Barber Peter Stanford- Methodist Minister Isolating oxygen…colour spectrums Hosting Jefferson an’ Small Priestly’s timely hurried departure To Pennsylvania heralded by Loyalist riotous mobs on broad street to ole’ moseley lands ---- [B] Descendants of CAR- goes cargoes of edgewood carriages with Birmingham flint guns blasting american wars… asante kingdom. apache, Chaka zulu, fuzzie wazzie, nubian, karifuna,tasmanian, boer an’ biafraian franklin, wesley and day understood abolition of this precious trade and the consequences Are these humans capable of “ higher thought ? “ Among themselves these learnt men Owners themselves of such chattel Aware the booming “noble” slavery trade of Boston & Maryland. Yankee slavers plying their trade from Brunswick, New England to Zanzibar despite abolition decades prior Cargoes wanted posters proclaim irish, welsh, english Scottish indentured labourers…fellow Christians albeit protestants, objectors and some catholics on the run with afrikan slaves,,, today in Moseley handsworth, newtown (not guinea coast) an’ Aston live multi racial decendants drive cars their famillar surnames occupying dwelling houses whose facades have not changed… roi kwabena