Would have been interested to know whether the author knew much of this, or rather if he tour affirmed or made deeper what he already knew ? I appreciated reading more about the ways that the Northern power structure enabled slavery, Jim Crow, and looked away during Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement. It reminds me of when the US looked away from the Nazis before entering the war. Capitalism appears to also work as a blindfold.
We have a long way to go and may actually be slipping back. Watch "Dollar Road" documentary about the Reel family in one of our modern day coastal counties.
Would have been interested to know whether the author knew much of this, or rather if he tour affirmed or made deeper what he already knew ? I appreciated reading more about the ways that the Northern power structure enabled slavery, Jim Crow, and looked away during Reconstruction and the Civil Rights movement. It reminds me of when the US looked away from the Nazis before entering the war. Capitalism appears to also work as a blindfold.
We have a long way to go and may actually be slipping back. Watch "Dollar Road" documentary about the Reel family in one of our modern day coastal counties.