I’m watching Origin and in the current scene at 48 minutes in, there is a discussion at a dinner table comparing slavery in the US to the Holocaust in Germany.
Slavery lasted 246 years, that’s 13 generations of people plus another 100 years of Jim Crow segregation and violence and murder. There were so many millions of African Americans who were murdered from the middle passage until the end of legal segregation that it goes beyond the realm of an official number. There is no number.
Those numbers. 246 years of slavery. 13 generations. It’s not the first scene in the movie to hit hard.
The movie tells the story of Isabel Wilkerson as she researches her book Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents.
Recommended.