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sheshe2

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11. Tears

Reply to Me. (Reply #10)

Tue Jun 5, 2018, 09:38 PM

Jun 2018

Cottenham and his peers had virtually no capacity to preserve their memories or document their destruction. The black population of the United States in 1900 was in the main destitute and illiterate. For the vast majority, no recordings, writings, images, or physical descriptions survive. There is no chronicle of girlfriends, hopes, or favorite songs of the dead in a Pratt Mines burial field. The entombed there are utterly mute, the fact of their existence as fragile as a scent in wind.

They died mute.

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Slavery by Another Name cyclonefence Jun 2018 #1

I agree, cyclonefence. sheshe2 Jun 2018 #2

So many lives never lived. brer cat Jun 2018 #3

For no reason. sheshe2 Jun 2018 #4

We stand on the shoulders of giants Gothmog Jun 2018 #5

K&R ehrnst Jun 2018 #6

K & R your post Sheshe2. Wwcd Jun 2018 #7

Thanks for posting this,sheshe NastyRiffraff Jun 2018 #8

It was a hard book to read. sheshe2 Jun 2018 #9

Dear Lord Me. Jun 2018 #10

Tears sheshe2 Jun 2018 #11

K&R radical noodle Jun 2018 #12

Thanks, Radical Noodle. sheshe2 Jun 2018 #13