![]() It was also the deliberate disintegration of black families for the sake of commerce. The ruination of slavery was more than the infernal indignity of being owned like a mule or a plow. Yes, slavery was marked with physical brutality, but it often overshadows the emotional savagery of a child taken from parent, a mother or father sold away from their children, or siblings scattered in different counties, if not different states. “And there I was, awakening with a start to nothing but ephemera, shadows, and screams.” “I was terrified, not simply because I had lost my mother, but because I was a boy who remembered all his yesterdays in crispest colors, and textures so rich I could drink them,” Hiram says. ![]() ![]() What he cannot recall is his mother, taken and sold when Hiram was only nine years old. He can remember and recreate verbatim everything he hears or encounters: songs, conversations, dates. Yet Hiram is also touched with miraculous gifts. ![]()
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