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children, who were burned, hanged, and mutilated in the name of protecting white
sovereignty. The humidity was thick, and the sun burned my skin, but neither minor
annoyance could compare with the mental affliction created by imagining being
surrounded by rows and rows of people from the past, who were killed merely for being
black.

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