“My family owned seven people,” Marshall said. She is diving into her family’s past and trying to chip away at racism in the Deep South, where every white family with roots here benefited from slavery and almost every Black family had enslaved ancestors. “Did you know your family owned slaves?” she asked, producing documents she had discovered. Her family had owned two men and one woman, all in their 30s, and four children. The two men met as boys, when Mosley’s uncle lived in one of the shacks on the Scoggins farm and worked for Marshall’s grandfather.

Source: bd News24 July 05, 2021 11:03 UTC