Enslavers used harsh and punishments to force enslaved people obey them. These images show these punishments. This text contains sensitive images that may not be suitable for all students.
Go beyond trauma and struggle to examine the liberation, civic engagement, creativity and intersecting identities of Black people during Black History Month.
Clint Smith is a Ph.D. candidate at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the author of the poetry collection Counting Descent (Write Bloody Publishing, 2016). His essays, poems and scholarly writing have appeared in the New Yorker, the Paris Review, the Atlantic, the Harvard Educational Review and elsewhere.