Ancestral Footsteps: Honoring Africans of the Middle Passage
Kim-Marie Walker's solo pilgrimage to historic U.S. transatlantic slave trade ports (17th - 19th Centuries)
 Travel Log & EssaysIf you can't be free, be a mystery. - Rita Dove, 'Canary' *Links to the Pilgrimage's companion Wordpress blog site. |  Learn about the pilgrimage.Standing in truth’s place At the interface of land and water Untold stories rattle spirits Remembrance revives souls A foot poised above ancestral footsteps Makes present moment awareness surreal and transcendent - from Truth's Place, in-progress travel memoir by Kim-Marie |  Did you know?Today’s forty-eight million Black Americans are descended from only 450,000 Middle Passage survivors--less than four percent of the 10.7 million survivors. And “...as late as 1820, nearly four Africans had crossed the Atlantic for every European, and, given the differences in the sex ratios between European and African migrant streams, about four out of every five females that traversed the Atlantic were from Africa." |
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 Join the global pursuit.Preserve the history and remembrance of the extraordinary multiethnic, multilingual, and multicultural African souls who, during the 16th, 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, survived physical, spiritual, and mental trauma due to: • Their initial capture on African soil • Their forced exodus and shipping across the Middle Passage on slave trade ships • Their importation to the shores of South America, the Caribbean, and North America. |  Sojourner Kim-Marie WalkerLearn more about Kim-Marie. Contact for speaking engagements. |  ResourcesKim-Marie at Jamestown, VA Natl Park, standing at a marker erected jointly with the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project, Inc. |
 Ancestral OfferingCarrying flowers, fruit, and gratitude to the Atlantic Ocean at the 19th annual Remembrance Ceremony at Sullivan's Island, South Carolina (2016) |
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