Celebration, Colonialism, Slavery: Capture, Loss, The Middle Passage, and Adaptation – Part 2 of 5
It was at the farm that they took 12-year-old Fulde.[1] I heard his screams. To run faster, I dropped my baby Tswana.[2] I never found Fulde. As his screams faded away, I rushed back to Tswana. But by then she also was gone. They took her – a suckling baby. I died that day. I …