From Pine View Farm

A Day at the Museum 0

Cordell Faulk visits the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture. A snippet (follow the link for the rest):

I knew I’d see shackles in the new Smithsonian museum; I was prepared for that. I wasn’t ready for the little ones.

Right there, in all their blunt starkness — above chains used for adults — was a set of shackles used to restrain children during the passage from Africa to the New World. They were just very, very small — unspeakably small. . . .

One more time: When you hear persons lament the “Lost Cause,” ask them this: “What, precisely, was the Cause that was Lost?”

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