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But what most Americans don’t know is that while he’s writing these lofty words for liberation, he had brought with him one of the many enslaved people whom he owned in order to serve him and to keep him comfortable

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Slavery had made it so that we didn’t know where we came from in Africa

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"If I thought that I’d ever be a slave again, I’d take a gun and just end it all right away, because you’re nothing but a dog. You’re not a thing but a dog."

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I didn’t understand why he would feel that much love for a country that clearly did not love him.

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 "Every family member for generations back that I know were all born here, but I never felt like I could claim fully that I was an American."

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 "Every family member for generations back that I know were all born here, but I never felt like I could claim fully that I was an American."

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If he fought foe our country they might start seeing him as an equal

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'A pirate ship by the name of White Lion sails into the bay here, and they needed to trade something of value so that they could get supplies to make the rest of their journey. And what they traded were 20 to 30 Africans, and this would be at this place kind of ironically called Point Comfort, where slavery in the British North American colonies that would go on to become the United States begins'

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They were born on "water"

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“Even if it was a little bit my dad would switch it out of a new one”

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only seen white people fly flags in their yard.

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life is not fair to everyone

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my dad always flew a flag in our front yard.

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"this would be at this place kind of ironically called Point Comfort, where slavery in the British North American colonies that would go on to become the United States begins"

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I don’t know, thinking about what they went through.

I don’t know. I just wonder a lot what it was, what it was like.

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They had been forged in trauma. They had been made black by those who believed themselves to be white.