Echoes of Footsteps

The saga of the Elizabeth nicknamed the Black Mayflower that sailed
out of the New York Bay in 1820 bound for West Africa continues. The
victory of Negro colonies of Freetown and Liberia barked by the United
States and Great Britain policing the waters of the Atlantic marked a new
offensive in the beginning of the end of the Atlantic slave trade. This in
turn sparked overzealousness of desperate slave lords led by Arab traders
and kidnappers on the East Coast of Africa that accelerated the rise of the
Indian Ocean slave trade.



The echoing footsteps of these unrelenting Negroes to end slavery in Africa
would be heard by most participants and observers in the form of success
stories of Negro adventurers on African shores. The successful activities
of the African American colony Liberia in a faraway land considered then
as the Dark Continent quickly became the biggest campaign tool for
politicians in the United States. The elation led to the banging of tables
in the United States Congress by philanthropists, religious leaders as well
as politicians, all scrambling to take credit for what was claimed to be
a humane way to rid their streets and neighborhoods of the dangers of
angry unwanted Negroes or hungry and vicious unowned slaves. Echoes of
Footsteps is the second in the three-part novel series on the Birth of a Negro
Nation, a saga in the legacy of the Atlantic trade. Deeds Not Words Would
conclude the trilogy.