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Three terracotta pots on side with soil spilling out: sandy soil, loamy soil, and clay soil

‘The Blood of Lynching Victims Is in This Soil.’

Source: National Geographic

The Emancipation Proclamation may have freed slaves, but many former slaves and their descendants still faced hatred and brutality in the form of lynching. Read how one museum aims to preserve the memory of these victims.

This entry was posted in A New Birth of Freedom and tagged Culture & Society, History on August 1, 2018 by Daniella Navarro.

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