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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