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I was initially going to put this in the twitter thread but I just found the story incredible after doing some reading to find out it was actually true.
I believe most people typically think of slavery as how brutal physically that it was and the punishment. However after reading this paragraph in his story it hit me a different way.
“Brown was first married to a fellow slave, named Nancy, but their marriage was not recognized legally. They had three children born into slavery under the partus sequitur ventrem principle. Brown was hired out by his master in Richmond, Virginia, and worked in a tobacco factory, renting a house where he and his wife lived with their children.[6] Brown had also been paying his wife's master not to sell his family, but the man betrayed Brown, selling pregnant Nancy and their three children to a different slave owner.[1]”
Henry Box Brown - Wikipedia
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I can’t fathom losing your parents and siblings as well as a wife and children. These are devastating losses that you just can’t recover from. Humans for all the Grace they can show at times are still just horrible. Worse than animals.