Fwd: Re-Membering the Forgotten Corridor: A Memorial Day Reflection
Amadu Massally
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From: Amadu Massally <amadu.m...@fambultik.com>
Date: Mon, May 26, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Subject: Re-Membering the Forgotten Corridor: A Memorial Day Reflection
To: Amadu Massally <amadu.m...@fambultik.com>
Dear family, friends, and associates,
I hope this note finds you well.
On Memorial Day, I revisited Florida’s Atlantic coast not as a tourist, but as a seeker of memory. From Prospect Bluff to Fort Mose, and from Ormond Beach’s sugar ruins to the Tomoka River marshes, I retraced a corridor shaped by Sierra Leonean labor, resistance, and reassembly. What began as a personal reflection quickly evolved into a scholarly reckoning.
I’m writing to share with you a field report that emerged from this journey:
“From Bunce to Bluff: Sierra Leone’s Forgotten Footprint in Florida.”
It outlines a fourth trade and resistance corridor stretching from Bunce Island to East Florida, with Richard Oswald’s Mount Oswald plantation (Three Chimneys, Ormond Beach) as a key node. From there, I trace the possibility of Sierra Leonean grumetos (semi-free Africans working in the system of the trade in human beings at Bance Island) and/or enslaved plantation labor dispersing into Fort Mose, Prospect Bluff, and ultimately into wider maroon networks.
This piece is part of the Diaspora Scavenger Project, which seeks to re-map diaspora flows not only by ledger but by landscape — integrating archaeological insight, shipping records, oral memory, and site visits.
If you have interest I’d be honored to share ideas or engage in dialogue around this topic. I’ve attached the full report and would welcome your thoughts on its interpretive possibilities or scholarly implications.
Warm regards,
Amadu Massally
Cultural Reconnection Advocate
Author of The Gullah Geechee Saga: Through African Eyes
amadu.m...@fambultik.com
+1.469.618.8840
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