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This song encapsulates resistance as a form of perseverance and speaks to the experiences of the Caribbean slave women’s capture, suffering, pain and triumph. Bob Marley describes her enslavement, the middle passage and the strength and perseverance given by a higher being to move forward and survive. The Caribbean slave women’s stories are not unlike my great, great, great grandmother who was enslaved and survived the middle passage, and arrived on the island of St.Vincent in the early 1800’s. She died in 1812, when the La Soufrière volcano erupted, killing her while her 10 day old baby (my great great great grandmother) suckled on her breast.
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Salter, N. (2013). Caribbean Slave Women’s Resistance as a Form of Preservation. In: Wane, N., Jagire, J., Murad, Z. (eds) Ruptures. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-446-8_5
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