Kasi Lemmons And Cynthia Erivo Interview Harriet
Even 150 years later, slavery remains America’s greatest shame. Before The Civil War, wealthy southern aristocrats owned human beings as property. The practice remains so controversial, there are still people who insist the war wasn’t fought over slavery directly, but over the more abstract notion of “states’ rights,” using impressive mental gymnastics to downplay the role of slavery in the South, thus glossing over the treatment of innocent black people who were forced to live their whole lives in bondage....