Descendants of enslaved family in Cobb County visit the Bench by the Road memorial

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Descendants of enslaved family in Cobb County visit the Bench by the Road memorial

Photo: Group photo of the descendants of enslaved Matilda Ruff, along with local supporters, at the Bench by the Road placed in her honor In a famous interview during a tour for her novel Beloved, author Toni Morrison lamented the lack of monuments to people who were enslaved into forced labor in the United States. Her comments inspired a movement to place a “Bench by the Road” in locations nationwide to memorialize those people. One such bench …