My mother's grandfather (b 1848) and her grandmother (b 1852) were slaves. Obviously, they were children but, they were born as property. Slavery is not distant to me. The onerousness of it still reeks. This country cannot afford to forget nor can it gussy-up such an awful sin. America began with hostages and it will have to bear forever its choice to be slaveholders. There is no amount of time that can lessen the fact that America held for centuries black people in bondage and subjugation.



No part of history is past.

Its importance is to know it in order to refrain from repeating it.
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