ABSTRACT
The violence of slavery bars Blacks from the psychic commons of the state and civil society, ab initio. Blackness is often misconstrued as an identity of the Human community, but no Black temporality is antecedent to the temporality of the Slave. In Ecrits, Jacques Lacan makes a striking assertion about the role of death in the formation of the subject: The death instinct essentially expresses the limit of the historical function of the subject. Africa's spatial coherence is temporally coterminous with the Arab and then European slave trade. There is no way for the juggernaut of social death to prohibit the Slave from being a bona fide member of the all-but-inaccessible unconscious community of memories. The guerilla war waged by the Black Liberation Army (BLA) against the United States (US) in the late 1960s, 1970s, and early 1980s was part of a multifaceted struggle ongoing since the first Africans landed in the New' World to redress Black dispossession.
