students’ textbooks, few people can visualize the days and nights of the enslaved victims who endured what John Henrik Clarke, an African American historian, once described as when Africans were “torn from their homeland, herded onto ships, and dispersed all over the so-called New World.” Torn, herded, and dispersed: In the unpacking of these verbs, the true crime against humanity is detailed.Īfter centuries in effect, U.S. Within this legal and widely accepted system, more than four million men, women, and children died in horrific ways.Īlthough slavery’s history is included in U.S. The institution of slavery, which lasted more than four centuries, was a cruelty suffered by nearly 60 million African people. There is no sweeter taste than that of freedom, and when your freedom is merely a wish or memory, you die a little inside for every moment you are not free. In August 2020, The Notebook became Chalkbeat Philadelphia.
This article was originally published in The Notebook.
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