To the anticipating, met with disbelief. To the unsuspecting, welcomed. In both, hope.

Set and achieved. Seen and understood. Secure and satisfied.

12 hours, the pressure is palpable. It seeps into the heart It squeezes the mind. While you sit it torments you with questions of, “What else?” WHAT ELSE?

“The slaveholder, as well as the slave, is the victim of the slave system.” Who could write such a sentence? Who could write such a sentence having been on the receiving end of the atrocities inflicted onto a slaves? Yet Douglas continues in reference to his overseer, “he was not by nature worse than other…

A narrative spun, a web created. Tangles to cut through. A start and an end to form.