Speaking Truth

Speaking Truth is a platform created by Rea Bennett, Michael Zirulnik, and Bobby Walker that invites the descendants of enslavers to examine their lineage and begin the process of making amends. In 2024, the creators of Speaking Truth gifted fifty-two individual oral histories that tell some of these stories to the Center for Family History at the International African American Museum.

In the description underneath each oral history, information including names of the enslaved and the enslavers has been pulled and is listed.

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