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Today “voter suppression” is code for the tools Republicans use to disfranchise Black people and other people of color, because they are Democrats. But hardly anyone knows that one of the most significant acts of racial disfranchisement took place two hundred years ago here in the Empire State.
The Slave Ship by J.M.W. Turner. (Barney Burstein / Corbis / VCG via Getty Images)
In the middle of 1856, the soon-to-be-celebrated poet Walt Whitman visited an impounded slave ship in Brooklyn. The taking of the ship was an unusual occurrence, as it was one of the few illegal slavers seized by an otherwise lethargic Washington, D.C., and Whitman wanted to give his readers a tour of the vessel, which had been designed to add even more enslaved laborers to the millions already ensnared in this system of iniquity, including of its hold, where those victimized were to be “laid together spoon-fashion.”
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Take a stroll along some of Juneau’s downtown streets and you’ll find brand new signs with maps and information about each location. But the signs do more than just tell you where you are each one tells an oral history about the place as part of an audio storytelling project called Juneau Voices.
The new signs feature QR codes. Scan them and you’ll be taken to an audio story about the place. (Editor’s note: The QR codes on the signs are currently inactive, but will be ready to scan in early March.)
Ten stories are narrated by people from throughout Dzantik’i Héeni, or Juneau, whose family histories go back generations. The narrators include the late Kingeistí David Katzeek and Erin Tripp, whose Tlingit name is Xáalnook.