Jerk Chicken and The Underground Railroad! Escaped Africans today referred to as Maroons, are said to have hunted the wild boar common to the region, then preserved it for days in a spice-heavy marinade. When it came time to cook the meat, the Maroons dug holes in the ground, filled them with charcoal, and buried the meat in the holes, which they then covered so as not to produce smoke and attract the attention of those that would bring them back into slavery. -------- Click here to listen to RASUL, Pan African and Burial Ground Historian bit.ly/The_Gist_of_JerkChicken_Underground_Railroad Tune to The Gist of Freedom Internet Radio show as we welcome historian T. Rasul Murray! Although suffering from jet lag from his trip to Africa, Rasul has agreed to lecture on the African Diaspora and its international impact of the African Burial Ground, in New York. Click here to listen bit.ly/The_Gist_of_JerkChicken_Underground_Railroad bit.ly/The_Gist_of_Rasul_African_BurialGround BlackHistoryBlog on iTunes WWW.BlackHistoryUniversity ---------------------- Along the way, they created one of the worlds great barbecue traditions: Jamaican jerk, a combination of West African flavors, pit-roasting techniques from Jamaicas Taino Indians, and the Quechua Indians jerky-like charqui, meaning dried meat. Jamaicans still pit-roast pigs in a few areas, but since Rastas dont eat swine, chicken has long since taken over as the primary jerk meat. It also cooks faster, says Jamaican chef Sean John, a Kingston native and the owner of Spur Tree Lounge, a Jamaican restaurant in downtown Manhattan. ------------------------------ Rasul a licensed New York City Tour Guide serves as an a volunteer historical interpreter and griot at the African Burial Ground National Monument. He conducts interpretive tours of the monument and walking tours of the old city and its African pass. He also conducts private tours of his city, including a tour of Old Manhattan and Its African Past, Harlem, and an introduction to New York for the first time visitor. A life-long cultural and political activist, Rasul served as a field secretary for the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, staffed the 1963 March on Washington and has been a community organizer and manager and administrator of a variety of community programs in New York City. His work has appeared in African Voices, Black World, The Journal of Black Poetry, Expressions, Esprit, Black Creations, McCalls Magazine, and other magazines and journals both here and abroad. His work has been anthologized in A Penny A Copy. He has performed his poems in a variety of spoken word venues in the United States and abroad. He is currently adapting a poem of his about African life in early Manhattan, as a multi-media performance presentation and as a film. Topic of discussion: Jerk Chicken and The underground Railroad Ashesi, university in Africa Kwame Nkrumah tomb, Accra, Ghana African Renaissance Monument, Dakar, Senegal Gorée Island, Senegal Elmina Castle, Elmina Ghana W.E.B. Du Bois
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