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"I asked her if presenting Blandford in such a positive light, they might be distorting its connection to an army and a cause that was violent, racist, and treasonous. "Absolutely," she said... But my great-great-grandfather fought... He said "I've got to join the army and defend my home state"... It was not a slavery issue..."But for me, as someone who is a Black American, someone whose ancestors were enslaved, it is very difficult for me to disentangle any of it." (Smith 124-125)

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"'Books are really good, but who can read a book? Who can have access to books?' This needs to be an open book, up under the sky, that people can come here and see"(80)

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"Here I was, on a plantation that enslaved hundreds of people who had skin like mine, having a conversation with a white, conservative, Fox News-consuming woman from Texas, whose mother had conveyed to her throughout her life that people like me were—that perhaps I was—better off dead than alive. A woman with whom, surprisingly even to me, I was sharing photos of my fourteen-month-old son."

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"I turned away and then looked back multiple times to make sure I understood what I was seeing. The photo seemed to have been taken recently; it was not a vestige of the past. It was indeed a white person on horseback, herding a group of what seemed to be exclusively Black men into a field where they were forced to work. The unsettling nature and placement of the image was compounded by the fact it welcomed its viewers into a gift shop stockpiled with an extensive inventory brandishing the Angola name."

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"our country's teachings about slavery, painfully limited, often focus singularly on heroic slave narratives at the expense of the millions of men and women whose stories might be less sensational but are no less worthy of being told" (64)

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"Our country is in a moment at an inflection point, in which there is a willingness to more fully grapple with the legacy of slavery and how it has shaped the world we live in" 6

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"Our country is in a moment at an inflection point, in which there is a willingness to more fully grapple with the legacy of slavery and how it has shaped the world we live in" 6

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"I know it felt to have them read a death warrant to me. I know how it feels to sit in a cell waiting for the day they will lead me to the chair again. I sure know how it feels to sit in that chair and have them strap me in and put a mask on my eyes. I know how it feels to have the shock go through me and think I am dead but find out I am not. ... Boy, you sure feel funny when you know you're going to die; almost like you know something only God should know" - Willie's (17 years old) testimony about his attempted electric chair execution.

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"The very first thing you want to do to an enslaved person is you want to strip them of their identity, and how do you do that? You take away their African names and you replace them with new European names" (211)

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"I was tempted to tell Ken about the Whitney Plantation: how a great many people assume that Black Americans would have no interest in visiting the land upon which their ancestors were enslaved, but my visit to the Whitney had shown me that if a place was willing to tell a different story--a more honest story--it would begin to see a different set of people visiting" (124).

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“At some point it is no longer a question of whether we can learn this history but whether we have the collective will to reckon with it.”

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"we have to grapple with [physical] violence and psychological violence, family separation. We would not be doing the story justice if we don't tell those stories."

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"Don't believe anything if it makes you comfortable" (231)

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“What would it take –what does it take– for you to confront a false history even if it means shattering the stories you have been told throughout your life? Even if it means having fundamentally reexamine who you are and who your family has been?” (170)

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“What would it take –what does it take– for you to confront a false history even if it means shattering the stories you have been told throughout your life? Even if it means having fundamentally reexamine who you are and who your family has been?” (170)

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"Just because something is difficult to accept doesn't mean you should refuse to accept it. Just because someone tells you a story doesn't make that story true"(172).

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"At the foot of the table were two shackles, their silver metal glimmering under the lights. A hot rush of blood pulsed behind my ears, as I felt the shame of being alive in a room built to kill."

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"The contrast between the two was conspicuous in ways not dissimilar to that between the two cemeteries at Monticello. there were far fewer tombstones at the People's Memorial Cemetery than at Blackford, and those there were indiscriminately scattered across the brown grass. There were no flags ornamenting the graves. There were no hourly tours available for people to remember the dead. There was history, but also silence" (134).

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“The history of slavery is the history of the United States. It was not peripheral to our founding; it was central to it. It is not irrelevant to our contemporary society; it created it. This history is in our soil, it is in our policies, and it must, too, be in our memories.”

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“We’re telling history by telling the full story, more of the story of everyone who lived here, not just certain people who were able to tell their stories.”

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[Blandford Cemetery]Confederacy, the sons of confederate veterans describes itself as an organization of around thirty thousand members that aims to preserve “the history and legacy of these heroes, so future generations can understand the motives that animated the Southern cause”. Its also the oldest hereditary organization for men who are descendants of those who fought for the Confederate Army: membership “ is open to all male descendants of any veteran who served honorably in the confederate armed forces.” ( 158)

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[Blandford Cemetery]Confederacy, the sons of confederate veterans describes itself as an organization of around thirty thousand members that aims to preserve “the history and legacy of these heroes, so future generations can understand the motives that animated the Southern cause”. Its also the oldest hereditary organization for men who are descendants of those who fought for the Confederate Army: membership “ is open to all male descendants of any veteran who served honorably in the confederate armed forces.” ( 158)