From the Quaker Ancient Burial Ground in London Grove Township, Pennsylvania, I’m processing the anger left still grinding from my visit through Virginia and an ancestor that owned slaves as well as the Jamestown Settlement and the summer of the first shipment of slaves as well as the Tobacco Brides coming into the colony. I reflect on the damage that sources toxic masculinity and wonder if there’s a difference between those that are traumatized and then become conquerors and those that have always been on top and defend their position.

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