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Keisha E. McKenzie | communication | systems | social good

Enfleshing Freedom

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Quote: What we’re freed for

From M. Shawn Copeland’s Enfleshing Freedom: Freedom from enslavement was freedom for being human. Only by analogy could the words of the Emancipation Proclamation change the order of creation, but it did remove God’s black human creatures from the plantation ledger. Statutory freedom amended the social and political status of the enslaved people. It was […]

In foreground pink and shadow: orchid blooms; in background in bright midday light, the urban landscape of lower Manhattan and the Hudson River. The sky is very blue, with a few low-horizon white clouds.