Rosewood Mug

This is what it looked like before they came. Rosewood, Florida — built by formerly enslaved people who took their freedom and made something real with it. Homes, churches, businesses, community. The postcard format isn't grief. It's documentation. Proof that when left to build, we build. What happened to Rosewood in 1923 is part of the record. What existed before that is the part worth carrying forward.