Jen’s Reviews > How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America > Status Update

John Cummings, the owner of the Whitney Plantation in LA says it well: “…and all of a sudden, you feel very strange. It’s not a feeling of guilt. It’s a feeling of ‘discovered ignorance.’ I don’t know how else to explain it. When you wonder, How could this have happened and I didn’t know about it? How could that happen?”

Links between things I knew and things I didn’t. The vast gaps. Wondrous.