The transatlantic slave trade changed the way global commerce worked, not just because it established enduring trade routes and generated vast wealth for European empires, but more importantly, it was the catalyzing force that forever intertwined Africa with capital itself. The entrenchment of the racial caste system, predicated on free labor built to establish global commerce, enriching European oligarchs and royalty, created a completely new paradigm for every African across the globe that is still enduring. Longshoring/Dockwork/Seafaring is an essential component, both symbolically and literally, of how history has shaped this reality through time. In many places, access to the sea created within many the potential to see themselves pass the chains they were in. Longshoring helped create vast networks of information and solidarity across groups of diasporic Africans and other races. New Orleans, a city inherently tied to the Caribbean that subtly venerates africa, as much of the American South does, is the perfect place to begin researching how pan-Africanism, labor solidarity, and lonshoring intersect. This thesis is dedicated to the question: How might Black dock workers in New Orleans through history be intertwined tragic poetry of the transatlantic slave trade and the triumphant creation of panafricanism?