Ajarry’s Journey by mhmEzra https://padlet.com/skyrocket6000/q5vyhvubyv6qhq4a en-us 2023-02-27 09:48:33 UTC 2025-12-13 11:19:09 UTC hello@padlet.com 1 - Ouidah, Benin skyrocket6000 https://padlet.com/skyrocket6000/q5vyhvubyv6qhq4a/wish/2499203318 "Cora's grandmother had never seen the ocean before that bright afternoon in the port of Ouidah and the water dazzled after her time in the fort's dungeon."
 - references Ajarry's limited experience due to her being in captivity
 - diction like "bright" and "dazzled" represent the opportunity shows by the port / Ajarry's excitement by seeing the ocean for the first time

https://slaveryandremembrance.org/articles/article/?id=A0120
"Europeans called the Bight of Benin—where Ouidah is located—and the surrounding region the “Slave Coast” because of its importance in supplying American markets with African laborers."
- Ouidah is known as an important part of the American slave trade
]]> 2023-03-01 08:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/skyrocket6000/q5vyhvubyv6qhq4a/wish/2499203318 2 - Pennsylvania, USA skyrocket6000 https://padlet.com/skyrocket6000/q5vyhvubyv6qhq4a/wish/2501099663 “In her stories, Isay and Sidoo and the rest somehow bought their way out of bondage and lived as free men and women in the City of Pennsylvania, a place she had overheard two white men discuss once.” (5)
- Pennsylvania represents freedom / a distant dream for Ajarry
- only referred to as a “story” / impossibility (“somehow”)

]]> 2023-03-02 13:31:27 UTC https://padlet.com/skyrocket6000/q5vyhvubyv6qhq4a/wish/2501099663 3 - Sullivan's Island / Charleston, SC, USA skyrocket6000 https://padlet.com/skyrocket6000/q5vyhvubyv6qhq4a/wish/2501110167 “Traders and procurers from up and down the coast converged on Charleston, checking the merchandise's eyes and joints and spines, wary of venereal distemper and other afflictions.” (5)
- slaves described as “merchandise” - completely stripping them of their humanity
- being put on display like products (they are viewed as products by slave owners”

Sign:
“[…] and persistent will to succeed against monumental odds, have African-Americans created a place for themselves in the American mosaic.”
- honors the slaves that were taken here
- acknowledges the obstacles faced
- suggests that African-Americans have overcome these obstacles and now fit in South Carolina 
- refers to America as a “mosaic”, a piece of art made of many different small pieces - representing that America functions through diversity and unity]]> 2023-03-02 13:39:01 UTC https://padlet.com/skyrocket6000/q5vyhvubyv6qhq4a/wish/2501110167 4 - Georgia, USA skyrocket6000 https://padlet.com/skyrocket6000/q5vyhvubyv6qhq4a/wish/2501123644
"Finally, Georgia. A representative of the Randall plantation bought her for two hundred and ninety-two dollars, in spite of the new blankness behind her eyes, which made her look simpleminded." (9)
- last place Ajarry goes (where she dies)
- this is an incredibly important step in her journey as this is where Ajarry finally settles down after being bought and sold all her life, as well as the place where she have children
- “blankness” representative of her exhaustion due to the unending obstacles she has faced and will continue to face

Sign:
“The breakup of families and the loss of home became part if African-American heritage remembered as “the weeping time.”
- Refers to the largest slave sale event in U.S. history (436 slaves sold)
-expresses how Georgia played one of the largest roles in the slave trade of the Antebellum South
-expresses that the effects of slaver are still felt and are engraved in African-American culture to this day]]> 2023-03-02 13:48:23 UTC https://padlet.com/skyrocket6000/q5vyhvubyv6qhq4a/wish/2501123644