#remembering slavery

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Vintage Book and Cassettes Remembering Slavery African - Etsy

This History Books item is sold by VintageCDChyld. Ships from Enterprise, OR. Listed on Apr 17, 2023

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~ “Remembering Slavery: African Americans Talk About Their Personal Experiences of Slavery and Emancipation” Book and Cassettes (1998)

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Synopsis: Die Name Wat Ons Gee

Die Name wat ons gee is a site specific community puppetry performance event, created by community organisation Net Vir Pret, in creative collaboration with the Handspring Puppet Trust and the University of the Western Cape  in the rural town of Smitsville/Barrydale in the Klein Karoo, off the R62 in South Africa.  

This year the project seeks to re-member, honour and celebrate the lives of the ancestors of our communities and the Barrydale community of the Klein Karoo, who were forced brutally into slavery  and indentured labour in the farming districts of the Cape in the 1800’s.   Our story is seen through the eyes of the ancient- as- the- hills Skilpad (Tortoise) and the young, impetuous Secretary bird who has forgotten how to fly, as she struggles to find her passion for life and meaning in the world today.     Skilpad takes us back in time on a journey of myth and mayhem, through foreign exotic lands, slave ships and perilous boat rides, to the Cape Colony where foreign traded slaves were put to work under horrific circumstances.  Amongst the devastating losses of homeland, community and sacred names,  belonging and humanity, a young Madagasy slave woman called Pelamana and a Khoi man called Jantjie, strike up a friendship in their shared dream of freedom.   Through their heroic story of emancipation, Secretary Bird finds the courage to not only face the truth of her past, but to re-write her own future story of Freedom and Self love.

 Die name wat ons gee is n gemeenskaplike poppespel opvoering wat die lewens van ons voorvaders en die mense van die Barrydale gemeenskap, wat in die 1800’s  in slawerny en ingeboekte arbeid in die landelike gebiede gevorseer was, te onthou, te eer en te vier.

Ons storie word  deur die oë van die ou Skilpad en die jong ontstuimige Sekretaris voël wat vergeet het hoe om te vlieg noudat sy haar passie vir die lewe en die bedoeling van die wereld bevraagteken gesien.

Skilpad neem ons ver terug op ‘n reis van mites, deur eksotiese lande, slaweskepe en gevaarlike bootreise, na die Kaap kolonie waar buitelandse slawe gevorseerd is om te werk onder die slegste omstandighede.

Tussen die verwoestende verlies van land, gemeenskappe en heilige name, die gevoel van behoort en mensdom, word n jong slaaf van Madagaskar genaamd Pelamana en n Khoi man genaamd Jantjie  agv hul drome van Vryheid bevriend.

Deur hulle heldhaftige storie van emansipasie vind Sekretaris Voël nie net die moed om die waarhede van haar verlede te konfronteer nie, maar om ook haar eie toekoms met Vryheid en liefde te herskryf.