Messiah

Up on You tube enjoying some proper soul music in the warm waiting for a Sunday telly drama.

I’ve been desk-top researching all through damn Covid the women and wives of Transatlantic slavers for they were accessories to the crimes, were molls, bedfellows and benefited greatly from the wealth.

Today at RAGWORKS I created

Mary Ann MacCormac

of Northern Irish and African-American descent who married Walter of the Guinea Company who himself was documented in Parliamentary papers as being involved in the Transatlantic Slave Trade. She lived and bred from 1830-1865 and often travelled from Sierra Leone with her two brothers to Belfast to her rich uncle.

I chose her because I had researched the movers and shakers in C18th “Freedom Land” and I have a close connection to a descendant of a revered family.

Mary Ann was the second wife of a man twenty two years her senior.

Just a girl.

Copywrite Jo Sealy

Black History Month Waltham Forest.

Today with a group of septuagenarians I visited the Black History Month exhibition of thirteen A3 mounted photographs of UK based Black Artisans. Is that all there is?

It’s in Chingford Library E4 foyer having been at the prestigious in some’s eyes William Morris Gallery . The Chingford Library foyer is easily missable.

We chose to go to whitelands because after viewing ( a ten minute affair) we could go chomp cod n chips over the road for six quid. If you’re gonna celebrate BHM do it in style.

The photographs are wonderful. You need a good strong back to get down and read some captions. Nine of the subjects are men.

We learnt that Waltham Forest is funding the Black Artisans’ Project and that there’s a film and we hope it’s moving objects.

We chatted and referenced Alex at Iroko Theatre as stem for roots learning.

it’s a free touring exhibition.

Cod dinner is £6.