We will never know even a tiny fraction of the names of our ancestors who were taken from Africa. We will never see their faces, never read their words. They are lost to us forever, because of the devastatingly effective way the slave trade worked in its attempt to erase the past from the present of a slave.


In Search of Our Roots (2009)

Henry Louis Gates Quotes

We will never know even a tiny fraction of the names of our ancestors who were taken from Africa. We will never see their faces, never read their...

We will never know even a tiny fraction of the names of our ancestors who were taken from Africa. We will never see their faces, never read their...

We will never know even a tiny fraction of the names of our ancestors who were taken from Africa. We will never see their faces, never read their...

We will never know even a tiny fraction of the names of our ancestors who were taken from Africa. We will never see their faces, never read their...