Starimi@lemmygrad.ml to Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml · 19 days agoWhy didn't the former enslaved Africans return back to their homelands after the abolition of slavery throughout the Americas?message-squaremessage-square23linkfedilinkarrow-up115arrow-down11
arrow-up114arrow-down1message-squareWhy didn't the former enslaved Africans return back to their homelands after the abolition of slavery throughout the Americas?Starimi@lemmygrad.ml to Ask Lemmygrad@lemmygrad.ml · 19 days agomessage-square23linkfedilink
minus-squareLa Dame d'Azur@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up35·19 days agoEdward: And what will you do with your share of the treasure, Ade? Return to Africa and become a king? Adewale: I cannot return to a place I’ve never been. I was born in Trinidad, a slave from my first breath! Edward: But wouldn’t you feel more at home there? Adewale: Would you feel at home in, say, Paris? Edward: Fair point.
Edward: And what will you do with your share of the treasure, Ade? Return to Africa and become a king?
Adewale: I cannot return to a place I’ve never been. I was born in Trinidad, a slave from my first breath!
Edward: But wouldn’t you feel more at home there?
Adewale: Would you feel at home in, say, Paris?
Edward: Fair point.