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'“No!” Larkin’s voice roared through the courtroom. “This ain’t justice! This is theft! Stealing my wife! My children! My life!”'

😭😭😭😭😭

This legal fight over Charity and her daughters' freedom is even more heartbreaking than the plantation chapters. Jesus

'Charity spoke softly. “You saw us, Mr. Stevens. You knew what this meant for us. How could you look at my girls and argue they were anything but free?”

“Again, the law,” he said, his voice quieter now, “does not bend to sentiment. If it did, it would no longer be the law.”

“Then the law is broken. And so are the men who stand behind it.”'

Thanks I fucking hate it

“...I’m not a man who’s ever feared pale foolishness dressed up as power.”

Damn!! Get 'em!!!

“...I had thought—quite naïvely—that any man who held slaves must surely be of great wealth. But his station is far humbler than I had been led to believe. And I found myself little more than his handmaiden, running to his every need. A wife in name, but I was a servant, nearly a slave!”

What a dumbass

Damn this must've been cathartic for the author 🔥🔥

'“When Junior’s here, I sleep in this room on the floor.” His hand motioned to the grimy chains near the end of the bed. “Sometimes I’m chained to his bedside. Not allowed to wear nothing but a shirt . . .”'

Jesus

"Henri was mourning. The land he once knew was a dissolving flash. Although he could still chant prayers, Henri could no longer remember his true name, forgotten somewhere in the murky waters of time and grief. His age was somewhere in his late teens, though he couldn’t be sure."

This is so sad

"Slavery isn’t just a story of brutality; it’s a story of resistance and opposition. This discomfort isn’t about the history itself, it’s about what it forces us to acknowledge: that we are still grappling with a system built on the subjugation of Black and brown bodies, not just admitting that slavery existed but refusing to see the humanity of those who survived it."

'In July 2023, Florida’s Black history curriculum included the audacious claim that “slaves developed skills” that could be used for “personal benefit.”'

Jesus I forgot about this stupidity