
Dinah is also known as Mammy or Mam-E. Dinah’s easy going servitude with her parental qualities are always at the service of the ‘whyte chilluns’. She’s always there for moral support to the plantation owner. Dinah however stays at odds with her friend Uncle Remus, 'who bymby sneaks up to de kitchun fo' a lil taste of roast’n ears or de lickin’s of liquor in de pot left from chicken smuder’d in calamus root sawse’. Soon Dinah’s world would change. The world that she knows that submits to the laws of physics would be “latched on ta a whole new woild of hoodoo. Saturn hoodoo dat is.”
On the blackest night of the year, late, when ‘nuddin was sturr’n but nite cridders’ a Saturnian named Emereciana visited Dinah’s shack that stood behind the mansion. She took each of Dinah’s instruments of servitude (broom, iron, washboard etc.) and modified their molecular structure to fit technological Saturn specifications.
Emereciana secretly gathered intel on Dinah’s work habits and daily rituals. She then calibrated the cosmic powered instruments to fit Dinah’s essence signature. Early one ‘mawn’n’, Dinah was sweeping the front porch while humming an old slave spiritual. The broom then unlocked it’s fantastic powers responding to the frequencies of Dinah’s voice, thus transforming her into Mam-E. Because Mam-E now shares in the essence of Emereciana’s power, her name is a shortened corruption of Emereciana’s Earth name which is Madam-Ethiopia.
Mam-E: “At fus, I thauwt a haint had lay’d some hoodoo on me or somthun, being dat I keeps a broom lay’n sides my bed fo’ tekshun from evil spiwits. Den, I calcalated that the good Lawd had gave me dish heah blessin’s to see dat dem ol’ lazy good fo’ nud’n abolichunis don’t be sashay’n ‘round talk’n ‘bout runn’n away from deir daily chowres.”
Surged with cosmic capabilities Mam-E fights to keep the abolitionists from bringing anarchy to the plantation.
Abilities:
Mam-E is endowed with great strength and enhanced agility and endurance. More than anything she has an undying will that has served her even more so than her cosmic capabilities. She has a broom that has secrets yet to be unlocked. She has learned with a sudden sweeping gesture that she can conjure a miniature tornado, which can lay low a small cabin. The broom can also project synthetic kinetic energy blasts. She can build up the force by slamming her broom against a hard object. The kinetic blows are stored in the circuitry of the broom where they are amplified and then channeled through the three rings at the end of Mam-E’s broom. So far she hasn’t reached a limit to the amount of kinetic energy that can be discharged.
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I'm loving this series. Is there a place that I can purchase a few copies? I'm collecting artifacts and building an archive related to Black stereotypes for a research project. kwanda.ford@cgu.edu
Dear Mr. Anderson, I am writing a book: Charting the Afrofuturist Imaginary in African American Art: The Black Female Fantastic. May I have permission to use this image? (hamiltone@fvsu.edu)
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