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Slave Pass, 1843. This slave pass, or permission note, is one of three found in 1934 in a Book of Common Prayer. The book was donated to the College of Charleston by Daniel Horlbeck in 1875.  Transcription: My Boy Mack has my Permission to sleep in a house in Bedon’s Alley, hired by his Mother this ticket is good for two months from this date Sarah H. Savage Sep_ber 19th, 1843 Charleston Slave Passes  lowcountrydigitallibrary
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    Freedom in capitalist society always remains about the same as it was in ancient Greek republics: Freedom for slave owners.
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Voices from the Days of Slavery: Fountain Hughes

Fountain Hughes

You wasn’t no more than a dog to some of them in them days. You wasn’t treated as good as they treat dogs now. But still I didn’t like to talk about it. Because it makes, makes people feel bad you know. Uh, I, I could say a whole lot I don’t like to say. And I won’t say a whole lot more.

Fountain Hughes, Age 101 (Interview, Baltimore, Maryland, June 11, 1949)

Voices from the Days of Slavery:

The almost seven hours of recorded interviews presented here took place between 1932 and 1975 in nine Southern states. Twenty-three interviewees, born between 1823 and the early 1860s, discuss how they felt about slavery, slaveholders, coercion of slaves, their families, and freedom. Several individuals sing songs, many of which were learned during the time of their enslavement. It is important to note that all of the interviewees spoke sixty or more years after the end of their enslavement, and it is their full lives that are reflected in these recordings. The individuals documented in this presentation have much to say about living as African Americans from the 1870s to the 1930s, and beyond.

All known recordings of former slaves in the American Folklife Center are included in this presentation. Some are being made publicly available for the first time and several others already available now include complete transcriptions. Unfortunately, not all the recordings are clearly audible. Although the original tapes and discs are generally in good physical condition, background noise and poorly positioned microphones make it extremely difficult to follow many of the interviews.

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endoftheuniverse: from “further considerations on afrofuturism” by kodwo eshun: “Toni Morrison argued that the African subjects that experienced capture, theft, mutilation, and slavery were the first moderns. They underwent real conditions of existential homelessness, alienation, dislocation, and dehumanization that philosophers like Nietzsche would later define as quintessentially modern.” “In the colonial era of the early to middle twentieth century, avant-gardists from Walter Benjamin to Frantz Fanon revolted in the name of the future against a power structure that relied on control and representation of the historical archive. Today, the situation is reversed. The powerful employ futurists and draw power from the futures they endorse, thereby condemning the disempowered to live in the past.” “…science fiction was never concerned with the future, but rather with engineering feedback between its preferred future and its becoming present.” “The human-machine interface became both the condition and the subject of Afrofuturism… to feel at home in alienation…” “Afrodiasporic subjects live the estrangement that science-fiction writers envision. Black existence and science fiction are one and the same.”
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Renée Green, Mise-en-Scène: Commemorative Toile, (1992)
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