The Met recently acquired “Bélizaire and the Frey Children,” a 19th-century Louisiana portrait with a secret: For over a 100 years, the image of an enslaved child was erased. This is his story.
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Magnificent work.
Even then we didn’t want to be around them. Not much has changed.
Or ..’The Kids and their pet Sooty’ …as their father called it…
Democrats erased a lot of things from their past, including slavery of my black people 🙄
I am German. Dad lives in Texas. Unfailing the history of his family showed up that his grand grand granddad came from the same region I am living now. Those person was somehow fleeing religious restrictions and one of the earliest (white) settlers in Texas. He had a slave son and had given him freedom on his 24 birthday. I ask myself how many people of color are walking around sharing with me some of the same genetic heritage.