The massacre’s uncollected bodies decomposed openly, buzzing with insects and vermin.

Evidence

Such a pus and rot he’d never smelled before. Needling choruses of gallinippers hiving above yards of bursting flesh. Rodents hurrying forth with their ratchet scratching at wounds. Midges inspecting tonsils on display. Then there was the nearly silent sound of worms at work, underworld missionaries unsewing men from their souls. — Nikole Hannah-Jones et al., The 1619 Project, 766

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