Buy My Boy's Book 'Richmond Pt.3'

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Comparison? ok..

What stands out to me the most of a difference in life in the south is how it is actually very slow-paced compared to life in the north. Also, what stood out to me during our time there is how long African American activists have had to ask for memorials, statues, and recognition of burial grounds of slaves. I remember it was only in 1996 some of there requests were taken into consideration. It seems like if this were to happen in the North, things would move quite differently and media would probably pick up a story real quick. But in the South, more than a hundred years of slavery abolition is still not enough time for even a reparation as simple as a memorial (which ended up being a famous African American tennis player).

It is also very strange to see how the civil war and slavery was and is still being taught in the South compared to the North. Ben Campbell, author and historian, a Richmond native attested that the history textbooks only mention African Americans a total of THREE times throughout the whole book. Two of these three mentions being Booker T. Washington without any mentioning of slaves. Ben, being from Richmond, seems to have a very rare perspective and knowledge about the South and its hidden secrets. He even wrote a book titled Richmond's Unhealed History which details the contradictions and crises that have formed the city of Richmond over centuries regarding slaves, and the civil war. It's good. Read. Learn. I bought it...