Middle Passage Commemoration & Panel Discussion - Aug 23

Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project
The Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project is identifying all ports of entry for the nearly 12 million Africans involved in the Middle Passage of the transatlantic human trade.
19 August 2020
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Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project (Jacksonville, FL)
announcement By Ann Chinn

We invite you to join us on Sunday, August 23, 2020 - from 5:00-6:00pm ET - the United Nations-designated International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition - for a virtual observance of ancestral commemoration.  Please follow this link to RSVP for the libation and panel discussion with facilitators from documented U.S. Middle Passage locations. The event will take place on Facebook Live.

Register for the Zoom Webinar | RSVP to view the Event on Facebook Live

Libations by Theodore Lush. Panelists: Rhonda Bristol, Joycelyn M. Davis, Victoria Johnson, David J. Meredith & Jeanne Pirtle

August 23, 2020 has great significance as:

  1. The International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and Its Abolition (United Nations)
  2. The anniversary of the first ancestral remembrance ceremonies (dawn and dusk) sponsored by the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project at Fells Point, Baltimore, MD, in 2012.

Our goal is to raise funds to install markers at the remaining 26 unmarked U.S. Middle Passage arrival locations by 2025. Before the nation marks its 250th celebration of independence in 2026, we want each of the 52 documented locations to have a marker acknowledging and commemorating the arrival, influence, and contributions of African and African-descended people.

We ask that you make a donation to the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project and sustain our national effort to commemorate and promote awareness of Africans and their descendants in the making of America. To fulfill our mission of truth-telling and healing, MPCPMP cannot continue as we have during these last eight years - with all volunteers and an annual budget never exceeding $15,000. Consider becoming a sustaining sponsor by committing to make a recurring, monthly donation of an amount that fits your budget.

You can support our project at via our Network for Good Donation Page or Paypal.

Ann L. Chinn is Executive Director of the Middle Passage Ceremonies and Port Markers Project

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