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When Slavery Severed Cultural Connections Across Generations

I want to teach my children about their African heritage but slavery broke the chain of knowing, so I am trying to build culture from fragments and imagination.

Juana
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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Historical trauma creates unbridgeable gaps in cultural knowledge, forcing descendants to reconstruct identity from incomplete information and inherited absence.

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