When Philly wanted to improve their Liberty Bell display, the black groups insisted that there be a big slavery presence. It was like they wanted to co-opt the Liberty Bell monument. I wouldn’t mind if somewhere a group of African Americans bought some land and created a museum or monument to ‘Slavery in America’, just stop trying to shove it into everything else.
But it was everywhere else. In all the beautiful houses and mansions -— they were all maintained by armies of slaves.