Beyond The Words.
Recently in class, we listened to a recording of Fountain Hughes (Left) and Laura Smalley (Right), two former slaves who have both lived to tell parts of their story. Back then we had a voice recorder which opens us up to the voices themselves. Pulling us away from just words and allowing us to hear the broken voices of our ancestors. Before we had that type of technology we would have not been able to relate or even understand the pain and the happiness and the culture that leaks through the throats of our ancestors. Nowadays we have millions and millions of technology that allow us to see the face of the people behind the voice, so our children’s children may live in the color of the past and create memories of their own to tell their daughters or their sons, and they won’t be held in captivity like the people way before my time. Our voices tell a story and hearing the ruggedness of their voices unfolds a new layer of history lathering through our skin. I’m glad to know about the past and to be able to hear the opinions of former slaves who worked day and night just to be free. Their hearts will forever be dipped in the blood of this country, and their words will always hold a deeper meaning.-Erisha Jones (2-18-16)
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