The Hidden History Of The Thousand-Mile Trek To Enslavement
Black History Year
PushBlack
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🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 4 minutes
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Summary
From westward expansion to the southernmost gulf coast, this country romanticizes the “pioneering spirit.” But there was a larger, more violent expansion hidden away by history. It started with seven horrific words, and Black people still suffer their power today.
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| 0:32.6 | They can't hide this secret history's painful results. |
| 0:38.7 | This is two-minute black history, what you didn't learn in school. |
| 0:49.5 | The Hidden History of the Thousand Mile Trek to Enslavement. It was a gruesome, terrifying |
| 0:57.0 | march. Hundreds of our people clad in rags shackled together like tattered paper dolls. Our ancestors |
| 1:04.0 | bleeding bare feet, as they hobbled along in pain, must have sounded like rolling thunder rising in the distance. |
| 1:13.3 | What was this? It was just business. Headhunters went town to town, asking farmers whether |
| 1:20.5 | they had enslaved persons for sale. Almost always, the answer was yes. Tobacco didn't always pay as well as selling our people. |
| 1:31.3 | Then seven powerful words changed everything. |
| 1:35.3 | I will bring them out by land, wrote James Franklin, a slave trader, |
| 1:41.3 | signaling his desire to transport as many of our ancestors as could make the |
| 1:47.5 | journey from Virginia to New Orleans. Each enslaved person was given a new set of clothes, |
| 1:55.5 | not to wear on the journey, but for the auction block once they arrived. |
| 2:02.6 | It gets worse. |
| 2:04.6 | After being snatched from their families, separated from their children, and shackled in chains, |
| 2:10.6 | they were referred to as coffee, a word usually used for animals. |
| 2:16.6 | They walked 10 hours a day, barefoot, for a thousand miles from Virginia to auction blocks in New Orleans. |
| 2:27.3 | The most treacherous part? |
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