Episode 4 - The Edmonds story, from Kingdom wars through the middle passage

The life of Anne and David before 1783 was one of enslavement on the Edmonium Tobacco Plantations in Fauquier County Virginia. They were descendants of Africans acquired from slave ships arriving in the Maryland-Virginia Chesapeake Bay, forcibly taken from Guinea, as West Africa was called at the time. 
For a time-lapse representation of slave ships crossing the Atlantic during the periods of 1650 -1750 and perhaps better appreciate the sheer scale of these events, visit ⁠https://www.slavevoyages.org/voyage/database#timelapse⁠    

From research documented by Adrian Q. Labor in 'Last Christmas in Nova Scotia, America and their Hopes of a Better and  Brighter New Year in Sierra Leone, Africa.' Jan 15rd, 2022 Edition; and African Curator LLC - Akindele Decker and Adrian Labor (https://www.africancurator.com/).  Presented by Natacha Leopold. Written and Produced by Barbara Morgan.

Photo: Excerpt from the muster roll of discharged officers, disbanded soldiers and Loyalists taken in Annapolis County 18-24 June 1784 almost certainly refers to the family of police officer Rose Fortune (ca 1774-1864). To learn about Rose Fortune you can visit: https://aaregistry.org/story/rose-fortune-a-special-canadian/  

[Features music from Krio Diaspora United (KDU)- Southern Ontario; Outro-  Say Her Name (Hell You Talmbout) Janelle Monáe et al - 2015, 2021 (c) Wondaland Records]  

(00:00) Introduction and arrival in Freetown

(01:50) Anne and David Edmonds

(05:30) History of West African Kingdoms

(14:11) Resistance, rebellion and heroism

(22:39) Paul Cuffe and the movement to resettle free black Americans to Africa

(24:27) Anne Edmonds, accusation and trial of a Nova Scotian settler

(26:00) John Leedham Morgan of the Trelawney Town Jamaican Maroons

(28:34) Marriage of Anne and John in 1809 and the banishment of Anne Edmonds Morgan

(30:00) Zion as a place of resilience and hope seven generations later

(31:52) Look back and closeout

This podcast is a fully volunteer effort toward the Zion Freetown 230 initiative. 

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