announcer: try tide power pods with 85% more tide in every pod. who needs that much more tide? everyone s gonna need more tide. it s a mess out there. that s why there s 85% more tide in every power pod. -see? -ah. she runs and plays like a puppy again. his #2s are perfect! he s a brand new dog, all in less than a year. when people switch their dog s food from kibble to the farmer s dog, they often say that it feels like magic. but there s no magic involved. (dog bark) it s simply fresh meat and vegetables, with all the nutrients dogs need instead of dried pellets. just food made for the health of dogs. delivered in packs portioned for your dog. it s amazing what real food can do. hello. you just watched civil war which traveled across the united states to explore how americans tell the story of the civil war. haunted by a birth past and the stories it refuses to tell. from flags and monuments in the town square to family photos and cemeteries. we the living continue to
with that auction block right there on the corner? it was, like, an embarrassment. i don t need to see that block to know what the past was. it made me mad because my great grandma, great grandpa, you bring them in on a boat. then you sell them. how do you try to memorialize something like that? it is totally unfair and unreal that people can sit there and say that, oh, we re just saving history. no, what you re doing is spitting in our faces. that s what you re doing. just across the river from downtown is the chatham plantation, where hundreds of slaves toiled for nearly a century. can you imagine the conversation that happened here, the idea that fear of separating from family, torture. but the flip side is the fear you could be sold at that auction block. can you imagine from out there seeing this nice big, brick house. you re not thinking, oh, i want to go that s a house of horrors. that s like a haunted house.
The public is invited to join us for the first in a series of Genealogy Workshops offered by the River Road African American Museum in Donaldsonville in 2022.