Listening to this podcast reminded me of the \u201csilences\u201d in history that I learned about in my \u201cSlavery and Freedom\u201d history class last semester. Silences are basically what they sound like, parts of history that have been silenced because no one thought they were important enough to write down, and if they were written down somewhere, they were most likely destroyed or hidden and definitely never taught in schools. One thing that I learned was that freed Black men in America were a huge part of starting the abolitionist movement, the fight to abolish slavery. The way it was always taught to me was that black men and women were the slaves, and white men were the abolitionists who came in to save the day. I was never taught about all the black heroes who worked tremendously hard in the fight against slavery, and they never get any credit. They were just as important as all the white people and white abolitionists, but unfortunately people during that time did not think so. That\u2019s also one of the reasons why there are not many stories and records of slaves. Even when we were trying to track down the slaves that worked on the land that UR currently stands on, our class barely found any records of the slaves that lived here. No names, no birthdays, maybe just a death certificate when owners needed to list the amount of slaves they owned and how many they lost. They were just numbers. It is sickening, and so sad. There is so much history we don\u2019t know, and so much we will never get back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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