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"May it please your Honors,"
lawless violence vindicated by our fathers
are they pirates or sea robber, negroes or cargo
in truth, does any man know? no.

no law but no doubt these blacks are slaves
with savage, heathen barbarian names
like Kimbo Choolay Quarto Cinque
captured African property from Mende

these slaves rose upon the crew
killed and slew, sparing only two, to put Africa in view
but we do not see Africa we only see murder
we commit violence to black life further

by seeing violence as the black slave
we remember, we remember the master as brave
we must recognize the power of slavery in the present,
tyrannical benevolence the moral sentence

lawless violence of the masters, captors
lawless violence of the owners, purchasers
less violence for the violent
more suffering for the silenced

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from Fifty​-​Three Slaves (An Amistad Project), released November 6, 2014

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At The Regal Austin, Texas

At The Regal is the musical project of myself, Marlon Hedrick.


I am interested in the motion between words and phrases and worlds and places.



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