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Crimes You Must Live With

The Memorial to Enslaved Laborers at UVa is etched with the names of people whose lives were destroyed by slavery along with quotes and anecdotes from survivors. One reads:

 

"Can we forget the crack of the whip, cowhide, whipping post, the auction block, the hand-cuffs, the spaniels, the iron collar, the negro-trader tearing the young child from it's mother's breast as a whelp from the lioness? Have we forgotten that by those horrible cruelties, hundreds of our race have been killed? No, we have not, nor ever will." -- Isabella Gibbons, 1867

 

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Uploaded on February 5, 2021
Taken on September 4, 2020