Hearing that the physical place where enslaved people - who had done absolutely nothing wrong - were held in a "jail" until they could be sold. This place called "jail" has served as the type of building that throughout history has housed Black people. Vagrancy laws, loitering laws, and other laws were enacted with the expressed purpose of jailing Black people. Even today, law enforcement uses tactics like racial profiling to target Black people who will ultimately be placed in jail. Will this cycle ever be broken?
Sad man , I don’t care if she happened to inherit her owners land and possessions , slavery was legal and her family is still owed reparations. House slaves and field slaves need to come together as one for reparations. A sign that America wants to right a wrong and reparations admits a wrong was committed and corrected . It’s a symbol , it’s not all about the money it’s justice . This elderly women is horrified by who her ancestor is , that’s troubling for a life time and she is an older women so obviously it never settled .
These are the black people who do not believe we should get reparations . Why ? Because they received an inheritance and everyone who was apart of it , don’t understand why field slaves , who never got anything , want reparations . This became a huge divide between black Americans . Inheritance . Some inherited their owners property , and wealth . All the other slaves who got the same from their respective owners , now had something in common . Which is , they all got inheritances and they realized , some didn’t and that was the divide . If not , everyone would says , Yes to reparations but only some blacks say yes . Now we know why others vehemently say No
Thank you for enlightening us on this unknown story.❤
Please keep her story alive. Her story mattered.
Thank you for shedding a light on this darkness. This is my birthplace and I never learned about this in Henrico Public School System. Thank you.
Wow. I hope this will be made into a movie.
Fantastic Segment - so interesting, inspiring and an education
This Moved Me!!!!! I will be reading this book!!!
Read the plaque first!
Great piece
Talk about Impact.😇👑🌎🌏🌍💚
What’s an amazing story.
Important story.
Hearing that the physical place where enslaved people - who had done absolutely nothing wrong - were held in a "jail" until they could be sold. This place called "jail" has served as the type of building that throughout history has housed Black people. Vagrancy laws, loitering laws, and other laws were enacted with the expressed purpose of jailing Black people. Even today, law enforcement uses tactics like racial profiling to target Black people who will ultimately be placed in jail. Will this cycle ever be broken?
Hang in there.
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Did I read that plaque wrong? What's going on here? Can someone please set the record straight!
Sad man , I don’t care if she happened to inherit her owners land and possessions , slavery was legal and her family is still owed reparations. House slaves and field slaves need to come together as one for reparations. A sign that America wants to right a wrong and reparations admits a wrong was committed and corrected . It’s a symbol , it’s not all about the money it’s justice . This elderly women is horrified by who her ancestor is , that’s troubling for a life time and she is an older women so obviously it never settled .
These are the black people who do not believe we should get reparations . Why ? Because they received an inheritance and everyone who was apart of it , don’t understand why field slaves , who never got anything , want reparations . This became a huge divide between black Americans . Inheritance . Some inherited their owners property , and wealth . All the other slaves who got the same from their respective owners , now had something in common . Which is , they all got inheritances and they realized , some didn’t and that was the divide . If not , everyone would says , Yes to reparations but only some blacks say yes . Now we know why others vehemently say No
Aw man. I thought this was a Halloween thing...