Your skin is black.

William Caslon I was an English gunsmith who also designed typefaces. The caslon typeface was also used in the first printed version of the United States Declaration of Independence.

Ironically, it's use in a statement adopted for separation from the British Empire is somewhat ironic, isn't it? To declare freedom yet not absolute. I wonder of John Dunlap (The guy who owned the printing shop that transformed the final written draft, signed on July 4th, to print.) was trying to make a point?

It makes me think about the book that I just recently finished. It's called "The Book of Negroes" written by Lawrence Hill. The story is about a woman who was stolen and placed into slavery at the very young age of 11 years old in the 1700's. Her story takes you through her life's turbulent and deeply moving events as she tries to take back her freedom.

I vowed not to give them the pleasure of my pain. But when my turn came, I surrendered to their coarseness and their stink. They dragged me to the branding corner. Their wounding metal was curved like a giant insect. As they brought it towards me, I defecated. They aimed a finger's length above my right nipple, and pressed it into my flesh.

I never really understood the business of the slave trade. This book brought me enormously closer to understanding the history of "Why?" people can be so afraid and angry over skin color.