Video deep dive:

THAT SHALL HE ALSO REAP: Music by Mattie Moss Clark and Michigan State Community Choir

KING COTTON: As pictured in 2018 at National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C.

STORY QUILTS: Artist Stephen Towns’ Nat Turner’s story quilts

ENSLAVED PETER: Formerly identified as “Gordon,” this haunting image piercingly demonstrates the evils of “the peculiar institution” of American chattel slavery

I WAS BROUGHT…: Shackles and chains for human bondage displayed at National Museum of African American Heritage and Culture in Washington, D.C.

MAJESTIC MAPLE TREE: Possibly either a Norway or sugar maple tree, a silent witness of history, firmly rooted in the beautiful area of Amicalola Falls (Georgia).

A NEW AND ACCURATE MAP OF NEGROLAND (1747): Library of Congress, Emanuel Bowen—cartographer

DRYBREAD PLANTATION: Avent and Lundy family associated location of slavery in Greensville County, Virginia—ancestral

MCGEHEE COTTON: Young child picking cotton in McGehee (McGee), Desha County, Arkansas-in the 1940’s-hearkening back to slavery days

BERKELEY PLANTATION: Ancestral home of gubernatorial, presidential, and enslaved Harrisons—all of them my undoubted ancestors

EXODUS 1831: At once a Biblical and historical reference tatted on the back of late rap artist, actor, poet and icon-Tupac Amaru Shakur

SUNLIGHT AND ORB: Image of a greater space

AUCTION BLOCK: An example of an actual auction block used during American chattel slavery displayed at National Museum of African American Heritage and Culture in Washington, D.C.

SALLIE JOHN TURNER: Aunt Sallie is my 3rd great aunt. Her story has been shared and discussed here in this forum

HONORING THE ANCESTORS: Photo courtesy of Fran, as shared to Facebook, a number of years ago

THE AUTHOR: In the spirit of my ancestors—maternal grandmother, Virginia, shown

SOUTHAMPTON ANCESTRAL: Land (137 acres thereabouts) sold 29 Jan 1877 to Henry Turner and wife, Eliza,—my 4th great-grandparents—sits in Drewryville, Southampton County, Virginia

WE HAVE A SITUATION: We need to find our people.

We know their stories.

Be not deceived, God is not mocked. For whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.

Galatians 6:7

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