One of the major things that stands out.. NONE of the cemeteries that I visited had any marker saying what location this was.... graves were by the roadside, right in the middle of strip malls... graves were the tucked down dirt roads and over a ways a piece.... we saw marked ones... we just didnt visit them....
See this is where getting out the car, meeting and greeting... will get you what you want... My Spirit will have me jumping out cars... you've to have some serious reflexes when Im in the car... right Crystal Kornickey it has to be a Pisces thing..... we will explore some terrain on this #WalkAbout the drive wasSridhar Rangaswamy ... sharp driving skills. THANK YOU!!!
The Most High will put in position for both to learn many things....
The videos are a trip... trust me... LOL Even on the way out.... back through Beaufort.... yet another cemetery... this tucked in the edge of the military base....
As I think about it... knowing that I am a child of Zarabanda and Centelle N'Doki... being greeting by a cloud of smoke, thick in the air your could smell the burning rubber and yet again... My Driver made a U Turn... there were a lot of U Turns on this trip... my personality can be a bit forceful when it is spirit driven...
Some have come to accept and know when it is more than just Brenda speaking... when the deep me comes out... a lot of things rise to the surface... my tongue is sharp and my tone intense....
Those bikes at Chad Walton Racing was definitely a Palo Mayombe moment
Thankfully there is ease Lowcountry... spiritual life in New York required more ritual. It took extra effort to commune with the forces of nature and feel your way through the muck and mire of the underbelly.
Here, I live and breath with Lowcountry Rhythms and as you can see... the exploration has intensified.... that's why there is always a go bag packed... LOL
I believe this ties in with the children needing to remember their Elder parents post I did the other day.... in the long range view of it ... we also without parents adopting Elders and preserving our history, lineage and lives...
Sala Malecun .... the work continues....
Showing posts with label Hilton Head Island SC. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hilton Head Island SC. Show all posts
Sunday, July 13, 2014
Mitchelville, Hilton Head Island, SC
Set your GPS for Beach City Road
Mitchelville Preservation Project Facebook
http://www.mitchelvillepreservationproject.com/
“Good colored people, you have a great work to do, and you are in a position of responsibility. This experiment is to give you freedom, position, homes, your families, property, your own soil. It seems to me a better time is coming … a better day is dawning.”
With these words, Union General Ormsby Mitchel proclaimed that the land the people of Mitchelville, South Carolina, had once toiled under the chains of slavery was now their own.
The triumphant and touching post-Civil War story of the rise of the first self-governed settlement for freedmen in the United States took place right here, on Hilton Head Island.
It’s a story as old and as rich as the soil itself; a testament to the sacrifice, resilience and perseverance of our nation’s very first freedmen, and thanks to The Mitchelville Preservation Project, today, America can relive it.
In 1862, shorly after the Emancipation Proclamation was signed -- while most of the African-American slave population was still trying to adjust to the idea of their new post-war freedom -- the people of Mitchelville were busy creating a completely new, self-governed culture that would be the guidepost for generations to follow.
These industrious new citizens built homes on neatly arranged streets, elected their own officials, developed laws, built an economy, and implemented mandatory education for their children. In fact, the reports of the success of Mitchelville were so glowing, that the famous Underground Railroad freedom fighter, Harriet Tubman, was sent to Hilton Head to see this bustling town, so she could share the story of Mitchelville’s self-governed success with future freedmen towns.
Situated on Hilton Head Island, SC, Mitchelville represents a jewel within the Gullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor that forms the roots of the African-American's contribution to the heritage of freedom in America.
Today the Gullah, direct decedents of those who settled on Mitchelville, still live and continue the traditions of their ancestors.
"Da spirit of freedom lives in we."
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