https://padlet.com/reshidaryan/gtdl8icjypxh A poem taking its reader on the pilgrimage of the African Enslaved Woman during slavery in the Caribbean. en-us 2016-11-24 12:32:57 UTC 2025-10-17 02:31:15 UTC hello@padlet.com reshidaryan https://padlet.com/reshidaryan/gtdl8icjypxh/wish/140367850 2016-11-28 23:55:42 UTC https://padlet.com/reshidaryan/gtdl8icjypxh/wish/140367850 reshidaryan https://padlet.com/reshidaryan/gtdl8icjypxh/wish/140367939 Her very existence is defiance.
She does not require her male counterpart assistance.
ASK NANNY
She spits fire from her tongue and with a chanting song, she can cause an entire uprising.
ASK CARLOTA
She has an attitude more fiery than the sun she slaves under.
Her Massa wonders about the threat she poses in taking his entire plantation asunder.
ASK LA MULATRESSE SOLITUDE
Her Black skin is an open book of scars that wont heal.
It tells a story, loud and bold, with lips that are sealed
ASK MARRY PRINCE
Even before she was dragged to the sugar islands and was made to be a slave,
Patriarchal systems in the motherland only sought to portray MEN as brave.
ASK ANY AFRICAN WOMAN
After seeing her brave men being humiliated, executed, stripped of their masculinity and made to work till death
What else was she  to do but become Massa's pet?

]]> 2016-11-28 23:56:56 UTC https://padlet.com/reshidaryan/gtdl8icjypxh/wish/140367939 reshidaryan https://padlet.com/reshidaryan/gtdl8icjypxh/wish/140375974 They are me and I am them, I could answer the question in one attempt.

It is because our resistance was 'passive', to say the least.
We were strategic and our actions came with deliberation and ease.
Compared to the violence our men dished out, ours were insufficient, drowned out.
We were made to seem fragile and incapable, not able, not strong enough.
Yet we supported the burden of an entire race, was that not tough?
We were subjected to rape and a formidable amount of responsibility.
We were Brick
We were Mortar
We were never someone's daughter, only the product of a breeding scheme.  ]]> 2016-11-29 01:23:56 UTC https://padlet.com/reshidaryan/gtdl8icjypxh/wish/140375974 reshidaryan https://padlet.com/reshidaryan/gtdl8icjypxh/wish/140377913 Centuries later and not much has changed.
The enemy went from being Massa, to the men we saw humiliated in chains.
We are still fragile, domesticated and are not capable of a lot,
regardless of the fact that we slave to provide for our families all day and must still slave in front of a fire burning below a pot.

If you have not understood the African Woman's plight
I take delight
In urging you to ask my Ebony Ancestors
why is it that today, under God's given sun
A Women is still seen as the lesser one?

                           FIN]]> 2016-11-29 01:40:12 UTC https://padlet.com/reshidaryan/gtdl8icjypxh/wish/140377913 reshidaryan https://padlet.com/reshidaryan/gtdl8icjypxh/wish/140378766 They did more than just that, in fact, 
Ask them who incited Tomba, a captive slave aboard a ship, to use a hammer and attack the Captain with it?
Ask them who was brave enough to poison Massa's food, who was intentionally stubborn and rude?
Ask them, who created networks of support amongst each other? 
Ask them who had to play the role of field worker, cook, washer yet still be mistress and mother?
Ask them who invoked revolts and established an entire escaped slave town.
Ask them why after all this triumph they continue to wear a constant frown? 

]]> 2016-11-29 01:48:30 UTC https://padlet.com/reshidaryan/gtdl8icjypxh/wish/140378766 reshidaryan https://padlet.com/reshidaryan/gtdl8icjypxh/wish/140390066 2016-11-29 02:18:24 UTC https://padlet.com/reshidaryan/gtdl8icjypxh/wish/140390066 reshidaryan https://padlet.com/reshidaryan/gtdl8icjypxh/wish/140390447 The poem aims to address a common misconception involving women and the role they played in resistance and eventual liberation the Enslaved Africans during slavery in the Caribbean. A series of question highlights the invaluable quantity of efforts made by the African woman. They range from overt rebellions to passive strategies, highly strategic in nature. The poem shows the misconception of female powerlessness being transcended to centuries even after slavery. The issue of an unbalanced scaled between men and women continues to be alive and well in the Caribbean and is in need of redress. ]]> 2016-11-29 02:23:03 UTC https://padlet.com/reshidaryan/gtdl8icjypxh/wish/140390447