May this National Day of Remembrance and Mourning

and the Monument to the Innonimate Slave

serve as fitting Memorials,

…to all those of our African forefathers and foremothers

who lie restless,

buried beneath the high seas of the Middle Passage,

with only the crests of its waves as their tombstones…

…to the African victims of the slave-trade holocaust,

yet unavenged by God and man,

who lie restless beneath the soil of this state,

this community,

throughout the states of our country

the Americas and Europe,

in graves marked only by the unredeemed agony of their toil

and the sanctified dust of their bones…

…to those of our ancestral kith and kin

who never tasted freedom in their lifetimes

and who still await the day

when

Through some appropriately humble act of national contrition

they may at long last Rest in Peace.

May our Observance

of this National Day of Remembrance and Mourning

redeem our nation’s sins of commission and omission

against our enslaved African forefathers and foremothers

and their progeny through the centuries.

Poem By Robert S. Pritchard

 

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