EP 11: How I Learned My House Was Built on a Former Plantation
Still Paying the Price: Reparations in Real Terms · Paulina Velasco, Juleyka Lantigua, Pamela Kirkland, Amanda DeJesus, Kojin Tashiro, Michelle Baker
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Show Notes
In this episode, series creator and co-editor Juleyka Lantigua, shares a deeply personal and relevant story. While driving through her neighborhood, she notices that street signs have been changed and decides to research the new name, Josiah Henson. She discovers that Josiah Henson was an influential figure in Black history, born into slavery in Maryland, and brought to the plantation that her then home stood on. This realization shakes her to the core as it confronts the tendency to treat slavery as a distant and irrelevant past.