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ANDRÉA & ROBIN MCBRIDE OWN THE LARGEST BLACK OWNED & WOMAN OWNED WINE COMPANY IN THE COUNTRY!

👉🏾The two sisters did not meet until 1999

👉🏾Their father KELLY MCBRIDE wanted to find and unite them once he had terminal stomach cancer.

👉🏾 He found Andréa in New Zealand but he did not find Robin before he passed away

👉🏾His family picked up the search - they saw an Oprah episode with a private detective talking about finding loved ones

👉🏾They wrote letters to every Robin McBride in the county and found her - this was before social media and all the access we have today

👉🏾Turns out both women grew up in world class winemaking regions (California + New Zealand)

👉🏾They both had a love & passion for wine

👉🏾They started their company MCBRIDE SISTERS in 2010 - an industry dominated by white men.

👉🏾You can find their wine in places like: Kroger, Specs, Total Wine, EVERYWHERE! ❤️❤️❤️

🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿 Rest In Peace to Kelly & Paulin

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"DREAD AND TREMBLING" : Olaudah Equiano offers a first hand account of his arrival in the Caribbean in 1756.

"As the vessel drew nearer, we plainly saw the harbor and other ships of different kinds and sizes and we soon anchored amongst them off Bridgetown. Many merchants and planters came on board. They put us in separate parcels and examined us attentively. They also made us jump, and pointed to the land, signifying we were to go there. We thought by this we should be eaten by these ugly men, as they appeared to us. When soon after we were all put down under the deck again, there was much dread and trembling among us and nothing but bitter cries to be heard all the night from the apprehensions. At last, the white people got some old slaves from the land to pacify us. They told us we were not to be eaten, but to work, and were soon to go on land, where we should see many of our country people. This report eased us much, and sure enough, soon after we landed, there came to us Africans of all languages. We were conducted immediately to the merchant's yard, where we were all pent up together, like so many sheep in a fold, without regard to sex or age. As every object was new to me, everything I saw filled me with surprise. What struck me first was that the houses were built with bricks and stones, and in every respect different from those I had seen in Africa, but I was still more astonished to see people on horseback. I did not know what this could mean, and indeed I thought these people were full of nothing but magical arts. While I was in this astonishment, one of my fellow prisoners spoke to a countryman of his about the horses who said they were the same kind they had in their country. I understood them, though they were from a distant part of Africa and I thought it odd I had not seen any horses there; but afterwards when I came to converse with different Africans, I found they had many horses amongst them, and much larger than those I then saw. We were not many days in the merchant's custody, before we were sold after their usual manner. On a signal given, (as the beat of a drum), buyers rush at once into the yard where the slaves are confined, and make a choice of that parcel they like best. The noise and clamor with which this is attended, and the eagerness visible in the countenances of the buyers, serve not a little to increase the apprehension of terrified Africans. In this manner, without scruple, are relations and friends separated, most of them never to see each other again. I remember in the vessel in which I was brought over there were several brothers who, in the sale, were sold in different lots; and it was very moving on this occasion, to see and hear their cries in parting."

Source: The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa the African (London, 1789).

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