Crossing the Atlantic in 1789
The trade winds
brought you here
once upon a time
snatched you from
the comfort that
was your home
sent you sailing
across the Atlantic
landing near
the Carolina coast
hand-delivered
in rural Georgia
where you were
freed from your
original sin
december two thousand twenty-two
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Pilgrims had a rough time on the Mayflower 1620.
Yes, of course, but not slave-owners.