Black authors, thinkers and freedom fighters of the African diaspora for your home.
Routes is an archive of Black thought, printed for your walls. Our first collection gathers writers, abolitionists and freedom fighters from Africa, the Caribbean, France and North America, voices that were speaking to each other long before us.
Frederick Douglass. Anna Julia Cooper. Mary Ann Shadd Cary, who published the Provincial Freeman in Ontario. Henry Bibb, who ran Voice of the Fugitive from Canada West. Their words meet those of Maryse Condé of Guadeloupe, Jean-Jacques Dessalines of Haiti and Béhanzin, King of Dahomey.
In the early 1930s, Martinican writer Paulette Nardal brought Harlem Renaissance writers and French-speaking Black students together, in her salon and in the bilingual Revue du monde noir. Routes picks up that thread. Each quote is printed in its original language, English or French, because our words know no borders.
The collection launched on May 10, 2026, France's national day of remembrance of the slave trade, slavery and its abolition.
For Black homes in the U.S., Canada, France and beyond, and for everyone honoring these voices. Illustrated by artist Baptiste "Wako" Buonomo. More quotes coming soon.
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