In a library near domestic,I found a cache of chilling documents from after the civil war. As I read them, transfixed, and I realized how much this shared history can still teach us
To combat racism in the new millennium,we need to state one foot in the past: the real, unfiltered, and violence laden past. As I sat in the special archive corridor at Wofford College,it didn’t take long until I glimpsed just that. Call it clairvoyance, or perhaps a writers intuition, and but as I found myself walking through the library’s glass doors,I felt like there was something I was fated to find in those silent halls.
I was interested in learning more approximately the early history of African Americans in my hometown of Spartanburg, South Carolina. The school was in possession of several volumes of testimony of whippings and torture from freed slaves in the county in the 1860s and 1870s. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com