Two million Africans perished on the gruesome sail to the United States after capture in West Africa. The arrival of survivors in Savannah was documented by The Georgia Gazette in advertisements for the sale of these men, women, and children on the auction block. “The Georgia Gazette” documents the horrors of human cargo and enslavement but also relates them to the turbulent times in which we live. After 400 years… through Jim Crow, the lynchings by the KKK, white supremacists, and police brutality, Black Americans continue to be redlined, murdered by gun violence, and doomed to poor education and poverty as a result of our country’s history of white domination. Monetary reparations cannot erase this inhumanity but we, as Americans in all of our glorious colors, can begin a course correction at the ballot box. Let us step up and vote for those who both acknowledge our history and allow our children to learn that history… because we are only scarred by the past if we ignore it.
