The sculpture of slavery

The man behind the new lynching memorial in Alabama says to understand lynching, you
have to understand slavery.

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[gloriouse]

May all those that lost they’re lives to this R.I.P. 💝🌷🇺🇸🌺

[icanonlybeliloleme]

Those that don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it

[almondkissed]

What my ancestors had to endure for me to be here today !!

[AfricanGirl]

wow. my people.
my ancestors 😢😭. omg if i could touch them, hold them, cry with them

[honeykeeper]

OMG.. How can any human being of a decent conscience and love within their souls see something like this and not break down in pain..???. Answer.. can't be done.!!!

[fountainmarvel]

Thanks for simply telling the truth and keeping it real!

[Kaaaaammmm]

This is a monument long overdue, and should be visited by anyone that questions the history of this Country. It does not even come close to the scale of injustice, but, thank God it finally is revealed in such a griping way.

[chicagobrother]

I'm grateful for the strength that my ancestors had to have to endure and survive such torture. Their strength runs through my blood. I'm grateful that they're still with me, walking with and guiding me in my journey today.

[brocookingwithjay]

No argument here. Of course like every other country we want to deny our past but this is is embracing and admitting things. This could help heal wounds so we can move on

[sokalsophia]

This is a tragedy that should’ve never had happen, to place a value on a person like someone’s property and, to be sold, enslaved, chained that, is a disgrace and an atrocity that unfortunately still goes on, might not literally like in our sad past but, in many other ways.

[nancyhagan]

Ancestors thank you for all your sacrifices
RIP

[gideonagyeman]

The great Ghanaian artist Kwame Akoto-Bamfo was able to add his talent in this narrative by being the brain behind this sculpture work.

[megjames]

"They that forget HISTORY are condemned to repeat it."

[yash.]

It boggles my mind that people could live with themselves while they treated others like this. How do you sleep at night knowing you've sold a child separately from it's mother? Or when you've whipped a man or woman crying for mercy who've done no crime? It goes against basic civility. Genuinely boggles my mind, how these people could carry on without any empathy.

[bookwormsurfer]

Bought tickets. Taking my white sons this July 4. Fitting. They need to know this. May they be better men because of it.

[checkmattee]

My ancestors. I wish I could hold them, shield them and cry for them so that they don't have to go through it.😣😪

[dvno]

Why don’t they talk about Africans capturing and giving other Africans to the Spaniards to make slaves???

[mohamedtoson]

The true face of the western Civilization

[Anonyme]

Feeling so hurt, what’s a pain. God help us healing. 😭😭😭

[morgan]

It disgusts me that people ever did this stuff to others! This is what we should be learning about in school so that history never repeats itself!