Sublime

reverenced.

Tu es un sacré brave type et je t'aime plus que personne au monde. Je ne pourrais pas te dire cela à New York. On me prendrait pour une tante. C'est ce qui a déclenché la guerre civile. Abraham Lincoln était une tante. Il était amoureux du général Grant. Jefferson aussi. Lincoln a aboli l'esclavage à la suite d'un pari. L'affaire Dred Scott fut fom

Born in Mississippi on October 6,

Stolen bodies working stolen land. It was an engine that did not stop, its hungry boiler fed with blood. With the surgeries that Dr. Stevens described, Cora thought, the whites had begun stealing futures in earnest. Cut you open and rip them out, dripping. Because that’s what you do when you take away someone’s babies—steal their future. Torture th

Mississippi appendectomy.”84

Those who supported forced sterilization devalued Black life, but they also hoped to profit from Black women’s suffering in whatever form it took. White medical professionals and staff stood to financially profit when completing forced sterilizations. By one estimate, Fannie Lou Hamer’s initial procedure to remove a small tumor would have grossed t