Have you ever wondered what a sandwich sounds like?

Not much to it is there?

Unless of course it's a Walker's sandwich.

Mmm, that is good.

Now that's what Asani should sound like.

Go all crisp in with walkers.

Delicious.

Black bodies were not. with Walters. Delicious.

Black bodies were not our own during enslavement.

Racists enacted all types of ridiculous things to keep us in bondage and under their control.

Here's how we outsmarted one of their most out-of-pocket rules.

I'm Leslie, and this is Too Many Black History,

what you didn't learn in school. Forced to wear oversized Running, running.

Forced to wear oversized clothing similar to smocks, enslaved women outsmarted the system by repurposing cotton, tobacco, and flower sacks

to create secret pockets worn beneath their clothing.

These simple pockets became a significant threat to the system.

Pockets threatened the status quo because they provided a certain level of bodily autonomy and

accessibility to freedom. They were essential to helping our people escape because they allowed us to

carry necessary possessions.

And slavers put out ads for escaped people using pockets as identifying markers because

they were afraid we might use those pockets to carry papers or other items needed to make

our way to freedom. But as our fight for freedom changed, so did the way we

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