![]() ![]() In the mainstream media, it is only trotted out to add color to historical scenes and to be displayed as something that strictly took place a long time ago in history, detached from contemporary life.Ĭoates blows away this comforting illusion. The visceral experience of slavery has mostly been hidden or played down. It revealed to me how well everything that the black body has endured, and continues to endure, has been erased from public consciousness. Ta-Nehisi Coates’ book swept away all such notions that were ingrained in me. It counted among America’s best moments, and as one of its defining ones until I read Between the World and Me. Lincoln’s victory over those who sought to oppress other human beings often felt like a real-life “good overcomes evil” scenario. It brings to mind the names of white generals on either side and that of a white president. ![]() And yet, the images that are brought to my mind when I think of the war are not of black people laboring for the benefit of someone else, but of white soldiers on horses. The issue at the heart of the war was the question of slavery – whether it could continue or not. It could be brought to full effect across all American states only with the end of the Civil War three years later. ![]() The Emancipation Proclamation declaring all slaves to be free was issued in September 1862. A review of by Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me by Sophia Sanchez ![]()
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