![]() ![]() It waited at Bunce Island in the Sierra Leone estuary, bobbing in the water, waiting for supplies and a cargo of "choice healthy slaves" that would be sold at auction by scramble on the deck or by the wharf when it landed at its final destination: the swampy, moss-draped Carolina Lowcountry. The ship on which she was brought started its journey in Liverpool or London and made its way south along the upper Guinea Coast. ![]() Her back bore the letters "R.A.C.E." – Royal African Company of England – seared into her flesh with a brand. She was a member of the Mende people of Sierra Leone. ![]() Just before the American Revolution, a woman whose name I may never know disembarked a ship in the harbour of Charleston, South Carolina, destined for a rice field. ![]()
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