Curtis Bunn is an Atlanta-based journalist for NBC BLK who writes about race.
For civil rights attorney and renowned social justice activist Bryan Stevenson, it’s not enough to know the history of slavery and the centuries-old struggles of Black people in America. He wants people to see it. Feel it. Touch it.
“And I thought about whether we could create a space like that, centered on the lives of enslaved people and tell this history.” Stevenson, who is also the founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, which has helped free more than 140 death row inmates wrongfully convicted, said the main house on plantations was so prominent that it “marginalized” the slave dwellings.
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