Imagine being handcuffed and having your feet shackled with the agreement that if you can make your way to a particular tree and touch it, you can be a free slave. The catch? You had to move rapidly to avoid the bullets fired by your owner and his friends!
This was a horrible blood sport and the Freedom Tree is a real symbol of this horrific chapter in human-rights abuses on a global scale.
The Freedom Tree was a symbol of the worst possible period in Africa?s tragic history, but clearly, these issues have morphed into new challenges and new forms of inhumanity.
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