My cousin Katrina Browne (agriculturist/director of Traces of the Buying and selling: A Story from the Down-reaching North) and I were in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania this gone week (Thursday, April 24) as part of the Public Constitution Center’s year-drawn out “Legacy of 1808” concatenation of events to impress the 200th yearly of the abolition of the bond-slave trade in the United States.
Katrina grew up in Philadelphia right a few blocks from the Liberation from foreign restraint Bell. She’s often reported that this fact has contributed to her herculean belief in government by the people and her interest in holding our nationality accountable for live up to the ideals set out in our founding documents. I apprehend it is one of the factors that led her to create Traces of the Purchase and sale.
It was indeed a powerful actual presentation to be on the same stage where, right weeks earlier, Senator Barack Obama gave his potent speech–A More Finished Union–craft for a national parley on race in America.
Between our meeting and the evening’s program I caught a rapid look of the influence these few quadrilateral and equiangular blocks of Philadelphia have had on my cousin Katrina. I wearied the afternoon touring “Baseball as America” and the ease of the...
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