The accumulation of Black people’s traumatic injuries could make strikes all the more soul-crushing. Moral injuries from being attacked could damage victims’ psyches. Raids could hollow victims out, imperiling a person’s capacity for joy, compromising their ability to love, undermining their talents. The constellation of betrayal from raids’ many horrors could dismantle survivors’ sense of self and their assumptions about the world and their place in it. Spiritual distress isolated survivors from kin and community, and reduced their capacity to live fully in the world.43
