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2022-2023 NTB 3-6 > The 1619 Project: Born on the Water > Flashcards

The 1619 Project: Born on the Water Flashcards

1
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Trace your roots

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Born on the Water

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2
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Draw a flag that represents your ancestral land

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3
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I do not know where I begin, what my story is

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I tell her that I am ashamed.

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Come, let me tell you our beginning

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But before that dreadful voyage, there was a time when they did not pray for freedom.

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There was a time when they did not sing about overcoming

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Before they were enslaved, they were free

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The people were good with their hands, knew the power of a seed, how to plant it, water it, how to make something out of nothing

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The people were good with their minds, good at math and science.

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They used shells for money, counting, recording, trading

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They knew what their work was worth.

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Their hands had a knowing.

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They knew how to hold a baby close, how to rock the child to keep her from crying.

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Their hands knew how to mix herbs, how to get the just-right flavor for a meal.

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Their hands knew how to beat and twist and shape iron

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Their hearts had a knowing.

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18
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They knew how to make work joyful, how to create rhythm by pounding the tools against metal, knew how to make music to keep them company as they worked.

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Born on the Water

19
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Their minds had a knowing, worldly, curious, sharp.

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Born on the Water

20
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When they met the white people, they learned quick, taught their tongues to speak Portuguese, taught their eyes to read strange words.

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Born on the Water

21
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They knew how to mix the old with the new, how even an ancient people always had more to learn.

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Born on the Water

22
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And the people moved their feet, moved their whole bodies to the melody of horns and stringed instruments, of marimbas and drums.

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Born on the Water

23
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They danced to celebrate, to mourn

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Born on the Water

24
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They danced as a way of worship, to offer thanks.

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Born on the Water

25
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Their bodies a song under open sky and bright sun.

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Born on the Water

26
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Their bodies a swaying testament to the beauty of creation

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Born on the Water

27
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Kidnapped them.

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Born on the Water

28
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And the white people took them anyway.

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Born on the Water

29
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Baptized them in the name of their god.

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Born on the Water

30
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Stamped them with new names.

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Born on the Water

31
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Ours is no immigration story.

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Born on the Water

32
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No promises, whispered from mouth to ear, of seeing each other soon.

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Born on the Water

33
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They could not hug their fathers and mothers, daughters and sons, hearts thumping in rhythm, clinging to that final sweetness before the parting.

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Born on the Water

34
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Just wails and sobs

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Born on the Water

35
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They had no things.

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36
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But they had their minds

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Born on the Water

37
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The old ways, the harvest songs, the just-right mix of herbs etched in their memories.

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Born on the Water

38
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They had their bodies.

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Born on the Water

39
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Histories and bloodlines and drums pulling in their veins.

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Born on the Water

40
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With trembling fingers they braided seeds into their hair, defiantly hiding tiny pieces of home to plant one day in new soils.

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Born on the Water

41
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No matter what some say, the people fought.

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Born on the Water

42
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And the white people took them anyway.

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Born on the Water

2022-2023 NTB 3-6 (19 decks)

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