A #Jesuit-led effort for descendants of its #formerslaves seeks to atone for '#sinful' past

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2025/02/16/jesuit-slavery-descendants-restorative-justice/78000468007/

book talk @ Enoch Pratt Free Library

"Drawing from an archive of nearly five thousand letters and advertisements, the riveting, dramatic story of #formerlyEnslavedPeople who spent years searching for family members stolen away during #slavery."

#JudithGiesberg in conversation about her book #LastSeen with Anne Sarah Rubin

https://youtu.be/ah53waolWvU?t=485

#slaves #FreedSlaves #FormerSlaves #Emancipation #BlackHistory #BlackHistoryMonth #UShistory #books @histodons @bookstodon

They were a lot more generous to their former slavers than needed to be. Certainly more than I would've been under similar circumstances. These are the stories that need to be told, and learned, by people so that the modern charlatan rulers that keep trying to pretend these things didn't happen or weren't so bad can driven into the ridicule they so deeply deserve.

#slavery #FormerSlaves #freedom #TheirStories #history #BlackHistory

https://getpocket.com/explore/item/the-painful-cutting-and-brilliant-letters-black-people-wrote-to-their-former-enslavers