Today's StoryCorps episode, as aired on NPR's NPR Morning Edition, a woman of grandmotherly age described learning from her great-grandmother, Sylvia, about Sylvia's experiences gaining literacy after attaining freedom subsequent to the Civil War.
That is to say, there are Black People ALIVE TODAY who PERSONAL KNEW formerly enslaved people.
Don't let anyone say anything to you about how the chattel enslavement of Black People in the States is all in the past. It isn't. It is directly part of the stories of people who are alive today.
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