Join me in forgetting, in service to a greater remembering.
Learn the story of Philip Reed, artist and innovator, as an acknowledgment and a cure.

Let us forget the man who enslaved Philip Reed.
An enslaver who deified an architect of Indigenous genocide.
Let him be unnamed, a footnote in the triumphant life of Philip Reed.

Spread word of Philip Reed who journeyed from Charleston to DC and created an allegory of freedom.
Tell the tale of his work, 15 tons of bronze, copied in triplicate.
Talk about this man who created something extraordinary without credit or recognition of his artistry.

Join me in remembering. Remember them all:
Lettie, Tilly, Tow, Ellick, Jackson, George, Emily, Levi Howard, Rachel Thomas, and Auw Rofs.
Philip Reed. Husband first to Jane Brown, then to Mary Marshall and father of Henry Reed.

Let us honor the power of those who survived enslavement.
Carrying on each day until they freed themselves. Join me in celebrating this fierce and burning power.

Learn and repeat the story of Philip Reed as an acknowledgment and a cure.