RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/117560316607531509
1860. That's more recent than the Great Famine, and we are all still reeling from that here in Ireland. 1860. It may as well be yesterday. JFC.
through the tears and very loud sobbing, am posting this for posterity:
❝ In 1860, an enslaved man named Sheppard Peek was listed among the possessions of William Peek, a white man in Crawfordville.
His value was placed at $1,400.
On another surviving document, Sheppard signed his name with an X.
More than a century and a half later, Sheppard’s great-great-granddaughter, Keisha Lance Bottoms, was elected governor of Georgia.❞
https://www.ajc.com/politics/2026/11/keisha-lance-bottoms-crawfordville-governors-mansion/
