Last week marked 400 years since the first enslaved Africans arrived in the United States. Our country’s history of slavery and institutional racism continues to cause great pain and inequality toward communities of color. We have to speak truth and confront this reality.
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She could've written the 13 colonies. But it's not as catchy. Aaaah, history, facts....
There weren't even thirteen colonies in 1619. There was, however, slavery in almost every part of the world: nothing unique about North America in that regard.
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Mass importation of slaves wasn’t unique, but was quite unusual. How many other countries had a sizable percentage of their population come from importing and enslaving people?
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