More than 2,000 pages of documents dating from 1600 to 1800 have been unearthed recently, revealing the brutal history of slavery in the United States.
New documents have just been discovered that reveal the brutal history of slavery in the United States.
About 2,000 pages of new historical documents dating from the 1600s to the 1800s have been found in the attic of a 200-year-old house in the US state of Maryland, according to reports on the Hill website of the US Congress.
Some pages of these documents show the harrowing details of the black auction and sale of black Americans Despite the fact that decades after the formal abolition of slavery in the United States, their rights are still being violated.
The American historian Caroline Brooks told Hill: “These (documents) are important for society because for individuals and the younger generation, they solve puzzles and allow them to understand what the situation was like. In order to move forward, you have to know what the past was like.”
According to the report, the documents were originally intended to be auctioned, but members of the local black community raised the money to ensure that the documents would be protected for future generations.
According to the published report, one of the discovered documents is related to the theft of more than 20 hectares of land that was first bought by a multiracial farmer in 1802.
Some researchers believe that the discovery of these documents is very important because it helps a generation or two of Americans know that blacks owned property and lost it over the years.
The documents were discovered at a time when black Americans are seeking justice and equal opportunities throughout the United States.
While the black community seeks justice and equality for itself, in recent months, many video footage has been released of US police discriminatory and violent treatment of blacks.
One of the most unfortunate discriminatory acts of the American police against blacks is related to George Floyd, a 46-year-old black American citizen who died by squeezing his knee on his neck for about 9 minutes while being detained by Shavin, a US police officer and several other officers. The reason for Floyd’s arrest by Shavin and his colleagues was that he had given the seller a counterfeit $ 20 to buy in a shop.
The scene of Floyd’s assassination sparked a wave of protests against racism and police violence in the United States that spread to other parts of the world. The killing of several other black citizens by US police has also been instrumental in fueling the protests.
Following widespread protests across the United States and other countries, a Minnesota state court finally sentenced Derek Shavin, the police officer responsible for the murder of George Floyd, to 22 and a half years in prison.
The trial for the third-degree murder charge by Derek Shavin lasted about three weeks, and he was eventually found guilty after refusing to present his defense in court.