enslaved Africans - BitterSweet

You Owe Me What was Always Mine

"You owe me what was always mine" is the title of Briayna Cuffie's latest blog post on reparations4slavery.com. She is speaking to enslavers whose family records, letters, journals, photos, plantation…

BitterSweet EditorsFebruary 15, 2021

Slavery & Its Legacies

No Account For It

While drafting the post Half-white Slaves of Aristocratic Masters at my blog, I acknowledged that Edward Ball, in his text, The Sweet Hell Inside: The Rise of an Elite Black Family in…

Roger David HardestyJune 19, 2016

Slavery & Its Legacies

What Do We Want to Say?

The Storytellers of BitterSweet have wide-ranging conversations and share stories on many topics, and we imagine that our readers and guest contributors will expand the exchange with new topics and…

Prinny AndersonOctober 18, 2013