The terrifying first capture in Africa.
The deadly crossing of the Middle Passage.
The brutality of slave markets and servitude.
It's almost impossible to imagine, let alone depict, the full horrors of American slavery, although writers, directors and artists have tried.
But there's one moment that seems to have caught their attention less often: the first encounter of kidnapped Africans with the strange new land where they were marched into enslavement.
In a remarkable exhibition called "Stony the Road," at Sean Kelly Gallery in New York, the artist Dawoud Bey takes us on the path that tens of thousands were forced to walk, from the slave ships that landed at the James River's docks to Richmond's slave pens and markets.
