When I first read the book I was around 12 and it was part of our curriculum. At that time I didn't know that her father had survived the camp. There must be so many families who didn't see a single survival. There must be so many who survived to find out they don't know a single person. It's beyond messed up and again humans are sometimes absolute monsters to other humans.

Wow. I have no words

Oh my f*cking god……what kind of monster would do this to another human being

This made my whole stomach flip, and I feel like crying

Think of this the next time an apologist tries to poo poo the evils of slavery

This hurts my heart.

This is just horrible

Some people are evil as f**k.

This is the history that conservatives want us to ignore.

This is why I should never be a time traveller, I wouldn't be able to stop myself from hunting down the people that were guilty of such brutality.

I hope whoever did this to him is rotting in Hell.

Read "To be a Slave" read "Beloved" read these stories. The legends and memoirs and horror stories. Theres is a story from to be a Slave that stuck to me like a drop of plastic burned to my skin. They had a large "crop" of babies born by the enslaved women. And had built a large trough like a group cradle to put them all in while the women worked the fields. Suddenly one spring afternoon a cloudburst happened and the women were trapped n the weather in the flooded fields. Of course every one of the babies drowned in that cradle. The person recording the event had this to say. I want to say it as it's written and its ugly and the words used are unkind. "There was not one red cent to be had from all them ngr babies"

This is what some people don't want children to see - 'Critical Race Theory'. I hate calling it that because it's really just United States history. The more TRUTH that is shown and taught will make sure that this NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN. People need to accept that this happened and the current hate and demoralizing of people today is built on this.

Beyond tragic

In some accounts, Peter is called Gordon. Peter together with others, including a man named Gordon, escaped the Lyons plantation. A later Harper's Weekly article misidentified him by his companion's name. Some argument also exists over who took the photograph. Some say a pair named McPherson and Oliver took the photo, while others attribute Mathew Brady, the famed Civil War photographer. Regardless, this photograph did more to motivate the Abolitionist movement than any speech.

This hurts my heart

Poor man, I can't imagine the pain and suffering he went through!

I've seen this picture many times and it always makes me tear up. The suffering he must have gone through.

The absolute agony these scars evoke.

Wrong Wrong Wrong... Too many times this happened...

I feel like my heart is lead and tears in my eyes. Humans are monsters.

There are records of the families of former slave holders , I have seen them , if you want to prosecute someone for sins of our country,s History instead of blaming each other ! History reveals truth !

I can only imagine what the head of the household must’ve been thinking when he realized just what people who endorsed slavery actually believed. I hope this was a wake up call for him to realize he couldn’t justify slavery in any way and that’s why he discharged the overseer.

Oh my gosh, why were black people treated like animals, they are people too, they just look different

Disturbing back story.

So sad ❤️

The horrors of what people do to others just because they can is something that darkens all our souls.

Sounds like the overseer whipped him, not the owners. Maybe he was from the same country?

Wow. Where was humanity? People are animals.

this is why Black Lives Matter