hanifah ౨ৎ’s Reviews > The 1619 Project: Born on the Water > Status Update

“When the people were beaten, they said the people did not feel pain. When they sold the people’s children, they said the people didn’t love. These were lies they made up so they could feel okay about slavery. It is wrong, always and forever, to own human beings. It is wrong, always and forever, to treat human beings like things.”

The way they were dehumanized and belittled literally disgusts me