Healing the Middle Passage Legacy

“Zamani: Heal the Past in the Present and empower the Future”

Zamani Refuge is an educational 501(c)3 dedicated to help heal the profound after effects of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and slavery. These experiences called the Middle Passage Legacy and all derrived therefrom are issues worth study and action.

We, the descendants, black and white, European, American and African are stuck in a historic self-perpetuating paradigm of blame and denial that is incapable of promoting effective healing of the middle passage.

While we appreciate that the issues that Zamani addresses are globally far reaching our focus will be on the United States with our home base being Asheville, North Carolina.

Zamani seeks to develop educational materials and community actions derived from a frank view of this historic period.

Such a frank view requires that we let go of blame, denial and judgment. It requires that we simply look at the legacy at all appropriate levels and manifest the integrity to take appropriate corrective actions.