Unbinding the Shackles the Founding Fathers Warned About

Unbinding the shackles the Founding Fathers warned about

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The Shackles Our Founders Warned Us About

By Ben Jealous — My grandmother was born in 1916 on the same red Virginia ground where her grandfather was born enslaved. She lived to one hundred and five. She carried the weight of what her family had been to my family, and what her family had been to itself, the way you carry a stone you cannot put down. When she died, the stone passed to me.