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Fat Tomato Summer 002

Fat Tomato Summer 002

...in which I suddenly learn (again) that abundance is not just the happy stuff.

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Shannan Martin
Jun 21, 2023
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This past week I traveled to Atlanta, Georgia and Montgomery, Alabama.

I learned a lot.

Within the first few minutes of entering The Legacy Museum, I learned that 400,000 enslaved people arrived in the USA via the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade. I had known other numbers:

  • 12 million people were enslaved from the continent of Africa

  • 2 million enslaved people…

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