Descendants
The fable goes that, "Yes, there were unfortunate things that happened,
yes, some blacks were threatened, but we bought the land from those
people who left and so there really was no injury. It's not a true
story, but it's a comforting story.
—Elliot Jaspin
"When you start to read these things, you're just… you're stunned by
it," says Elliot Jaspin. "It's so unexpected, the accounts of what took
place. It says, 'Negroes flee from Forsyth. Enraged white people are
driving blacks from county.'" Jaspin is looking at newspaper headlines
on microfiche, that pre-digital archival form, here put to dramatic and
even musical use, as its signature whooshing sound alludes to the
process of digging into history long repressed.
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