A history of drowning in 50. Passages 129. Links
A history of drowning in 50. Passages 129. Links
[[Static]] [[Stasis]] [[Floating]] acting as weight but not moving [[salt]] period or state of inactivity or equilibrium --a stoppage of flow of a body fluid. “When the sea is rendered as slavery, violence and mourning are symbolized by spatial stasis. Aquatic stasis reflects temporal depth and death: in fact, water is an element ‘which remembers the dead.” [[The Atlantic Ocean]] moving through the Caribbean moving to the States [[lynchings]] [[Ark of Bones]] Headeye was never like other kids, he got a bone, a mojo bone and the rivers opened to him[[The Flood of 1927]] houses moving like reeds[[Climate Change]] the rivers’ gonna swell swell swell and eat up everything [[Rivers]] bodies thrown into rivers to hide the acts, the scars, the flesh, wounds can’t hide [[Rivers]] [[The Flood of 1927]] Tallahatchie, Baby [[Emmet Till]] (1941–1955) "what’s chucked the ’hatchie swallow." [[Tallahatchie River Blues]][[Emmet Till]] [[Water as burial]] [[Middle Passage]] [[Ships]] [[Water as burial]] [[Rivers]] [[Water for cleansing]] [[Stasis]] Before the Mississippi flooded and 200,000 Black people lost their homes, the U.S government was well aware of the risk of flooding, 1927 [[Flooding]] [[Water as burial]] [[The Tallahatchie River]] "what’s chucked the ’hatchie swallow." [[Stasis]] [[Port Arthur Texas]] just off the Sabine river. A majority Black city in Texas. Texas Universities say they’re gonna start studying the impact of flooding and air pollution on the city’s residents. Home to the world’s largest oil refinery [[Fluid in the lungs]] [[poisoning through water]] [[Port Arthur Texas]] [[Flooding]] [[Hurricane Harvey]] Port Arthur is extremely vulnerable to hurricanes. Harvey had the whole city underwater. [[Flooding]] NASA says that hurricanes striking the Atlantic coast are born in storm systems off the shores of West Africa. Their destructive journeys are identical to the routes of the transatlantic slave trade. [[Memory of drowning]] [[Ark of Bones]] [[Ships]] [[Flying Africans]] If it wasn’t for the salt [[Memory held in water]] home, houses just like reeds [[Flooding]] [[Fluid in the lungs]] [[Water Shutoffs]] [[Port Arthur Texas]] [[Hurricanes]] [[Flooding]] [[Drowning]] [[The Mississippi River ]] [[Drowning]] [[Fluid in the lungs]] [[Inability to swim]] [[Memory]] memories my grandpa [[pools]][[Water Shutoffs]] [[Rivers]] [[Jackson Mississippi]] Many enslaved people followed rivers up north to freedom. Water masked their scents from bloodhounds. Songs like Wade in the Water. Later, during Jim Crow, many lynching victims’ bodies were thrown in rivers. [[The Mississippi River]] "what’s chucked the ’hatchie swallow. [[Water as burial]] Tallahatchie River’s risin', risin’, risin only the Lord knows how high those waters gonna go, Lord knows how high those waters gonna go [[The Mississippi River]] [[Water as burial]] William Walker, born enslaved, left little pools of water in each footprint to hide his scent from bloodhounds as he escaped north [[Water as disguise]][[Flying Africans]] if it wasn’t for all the salt in that water [[Flint Drinking Water]] [[pools]] [[Stasis]] [[Drowning]] Double D, the Douglas and Degraw public pool, Double D [[Memory]] He never learned so I did
[[Water policing bodies]] [[caps]] [[fire hydrants]] [[Flint Drinking Water]] [[Water Shutoffs]]1963, Birmingham, Alabama [[caps]] [[Water policing bodies]] [[caps]] [[hoses]] [[ firemen]] [[caps]] [[Memory of water]] [[pools]][[Ships]] [[St. Helena Island, S.C]] [[Middle Passage]] [[The Atlantic Ocean]] [[Stasis]] [[The Atlantic Ocean]] [[Ships]][[Saint Helena]] [[Ark of Bones]] [[Water for cleansing]] [[Memory of drowning]] [[Memory]] [[Ark of Bones]] [[Ships]] [[Middle Passage]] [[The Zong]] [[Middle Passage]] [[Flying Africans]] [[Memory held in water]] [[Memory of water]] [[Memory of drowning]][[Memory held in water]] [[Memory of water]] [[my grandpa]] [[Water as burial]] [[Drowning]] [[Memory held in water]] [[Ships]] [[Igbo Landing]] [[Water for cleansing]]
[[salt]] One of the largest mass suicides of enslaved people. [[Water as burial]] [[Memory held in water]] [[Flying Africans]] [[Igbo Landing]] May 1803, a group of enslaved Igbo people took control of a slave ship, the York, and drowned its crew. What happened next remains unclear. It’s known only that following their high chief, the Igbo people marched ashore, singing. When time, he directed them to walk into the marshy waters of Dunbar Creek. Reborn back home [[Drowning]] [[Water as burial]] [[The Zong]] [[salt]] They say salt in the water kept enslaved Africans from flying home. A new world myth born from the Igbo Landing. Gifted from the ancestors, the myth, a freedom born captive [[Middle Passage]] [[Igbo Landing]] [[Memory held in water]] poisoned water boiled still poison [[Inability to swim or fly]] More than 50,000 households in Detroit have lost water services since 2014 because they couldn’t pay their bills. Flint still in the throes of a lead poisoning crisis. Jackson doesn’t have clean drinking water [[poisoning through water]] Black American cities, if not underwater than without it [[Jackson Mississippi]] [[Water policing bodies]] [[salt]] [[Can’t swim, can’t fly]] and together we gulped water until rescued. neither of us could swim. He couldn't save me, his oldest grandchild. [[Static]] [[Stasis]] [[Floating]] My first memory of water, a drowning.