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    Tag:  slavery

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    Letter: Live in the present and create a better future

    Posted on August 21, 2023August 18, 2023 by Letters

    “At what point do we give up the oxygen-sucking activity of railing against the past and focus on the battles before us here and now?”

    1.5 K views+LettersOpinion

    It’s time we stopped honoring racists

    Posted on August 6, 2023August 5, 2023 by Peter Robbins

    “Imagine there’s a small town called Bondageville, named after its distinguished founder, Samuel Ashe Bondage.”

    24.5 K views40CommentaryOpinion

    Fighting sex traffickin­g takes multiprong­ed approach

    Posted on June 12, 2023July 28, 2023 by Jessica Wakeman

    Sex trafficking doesn’t look like the plot of the 2008 film “Taken” starring Liam Neeson as a father who dramatically rescues his daughter from Albanian gangsters.

    5.2 K views+Community NewsNewsNonprofitsWellness

    Letter: Build empathy with visits to living legacies

    Posted on February 22, 2022February 22, 2022 by Letters

    “Asheville’s Peace Gardens and Hood Huggers International are the perfect preparation for a visit to Montgomery.”

    2.1 K views+LettersOpinion

    Letter: Harriet Tubman statue resonates with WNC family’s history

    Posted on September 12, 2021September 12, 2021 by Letters

    ” I loved the emblem of Harriet Tubman with her right hand protectively spread across the chest of a frightened little girl. It speaks volumes to me.”

    1.8 K views+LettersOpinion

    Trademarks

    Posted on January 31, 2021January 22, 2021 by Molton
    2.5 K views1HumorOpinion

    Letter: Legalized slavery still thrives in prisons

    Posted on October 25, 2020October 25, 2020 by Letters

    “Working for slave wages leads to black market trading, pervasive in-prison debt, violence and decimated self-worth that often leads to recidivism.”

    3.1 K views3LettersOpinion

    Letter: Shouldn’t civic center’s name be changed, too?

    Posted on October 3, 2020October 2, 2020 by Letters

    “Shouldn’t the name of Asheville’s civic center, Harrah’s Cherokee Center – Asheville, be among those that must be changed, since the Cherokees were also slaveowners?”

    6.1 K views16LettersOpinion

    Letter: Cawthorn’s comments raise troubling questions

    Posted on September 21, 2020September 21, 2020 by Letters

    “But his visit to Berchtesgaden and his comments there raise troubling questions that he has failed to answer.”

    8.0 K views16LettersOpinion

    This time it’s different? The Gospel According to Jerry

    Posted on July 13, 2020July 13, 2020 by Jerry Sternberg

    “I could give you a litany of racial injustice incidents that I’ve personally observed over the years.”

    4.6 K views3CommentaryOpinion

    Letter: Confederat­e monuments, the fake news of the time

    Posted on July 11, 2020July 10, 2020 by Letters

    “Turns out there was this effort about 30 years after the war … to propagandize to the youth in schools and erect all of these Confederate statues and monuments to sort of rewrite history, painting the South as fallen victims of big government oppression.”

    3.7 K views4LettersOpinion

    Letter: Repurpose the Vance Monument

    Posted on July 10, 2020July 9, 2020 by Letters

    “I believe the city and county ought to embrace the obelisk and repurpose it for a monument that stands for freedom and rights for every citizen who breathes the air of this nation.”

    3.4 K views7LettersOpinion

    Letter: Let’s work through monument issue together

    Posted on July 5, 2020July 3, 2020 by Letters

    “Perhaps our Confederate monuments need to be replaced with monuments representing the horror and evil of slavery while also honoring the Black families.”

    2.2 K views1LettersOpinion

    Letter: Confederat­e monuments remind us of our history

    Posted on July 1, 2020June 30, 2020 by Letters

    “Their existence represents a teachable moment to future generations of the evil of slavery. However, these statues are not really all about slavery, they are about the history of our nation.”

    9.1 K views43LettersOpinion

    Asheville Archives: Zebulon Vance argues in favor of slavery, 1860

    Posted on June 16, 2020June 15, 2020 by Thomas Calder

    “Plainly and unequivocally, common sense says keep the slave where he is now — in servitude,” declared Zebulon Vance, in a May 16, 1860 address to the House of Representatives.

    13.1 K views3HistoryNews

    Letter: Language shift will change perception­s

    Posted on January 8, 2020January 6, 2020 by Letters

    “Although it takes conscious effort and practice, these simple changes in our language make big shifts in our community of Asheville, which must also work to reconcile our own legacy of slavery.”

    6.2 K views23LettersOpinion

    Letter: Change the way we speak about slavery

    Posted on January 7, 2020January 6, 2020 by Letters

    “We are writing this because we believe that we all should change the way we speak about slavery.”

    14.7 K views12LettersOpinion

    Letter: Rememberin­g the past more accurately

    Posted on January 6, 2020January 6, 2020 by Letters

    “Upon reading an article from The New York Times and the 1619 Project, we realized that the use of the words slave, slave owner and plantations are dehumanizing to the descendants of enslaved people and continue the institutional racism that was propagated back then to justify slavery.”

    2.6 K views3LettersOpinion

    Asheville Archives: Slavery in WNC

    Posted on October 21, 2019October 22, 2019 by Thomas Calder

    The 1860 census records show that Buncombe County had 1,907 slaves and 283 slave owners. Yet even today, some local historians say people are unaware that slavery existed in WNC.

    13.1 K views+HistoryNews

    Letter: Lost Cause myths continue to reverberat­e

    Posted on June 10, 2018June 8, 2018 by Letters

    “The irony that the supporters of the Lost Cause claim to oppose the rewriting of history is that in many cases, they were the ones who rewrote that history.”

    3.1 K views4LettersOpinion

    Letter: Civil War historians should face reality

    Posted on June 5, 2018June 4, 2018 by Letters

    “Now, people like Cox, by her writings and lectures, have incited individuals to do such things as to deface the plaque to Gen. Robert E. Lee at the Vance Monument.”

    9.3 K views22LettersOpinion
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