Slaves knew 'the fearful anguish of broken hearts'. In Trump's America, migrants do too | Daina Ramey Berry

Family separation was a key tactic of the 18th- and 19th-century slave trade. Now, another cruel regime has used it

“I can remember the scene as if it were but yesterday,” formerly enslaved Elizabeth Keckley wrote about her family separation. The sorrow was too much to describe. She recalled her father’s “last kiss; his wild straining of my mother to his bosom; the solemn prayer to Heaven; the tears and sobs—the fearful anguish of broken hearts.”

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