They lived

In Nona Faustine's White Shoes series, she casts herself to stand for the women who survived the horrors of the Middle Passage and were then sold into a life of unrelenting terror. Her work is courageous and beautiful and heart wrenching. With her body, Faustine shows us enslaved Africans are in every sinew of this nation. It's bricks and mortar, fields and streams, and rocky coastlines harbor the degradation of slavery. Wall Street, the hub of international capitalism, was the auction block.

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