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“The simple truth is that most Americans know about the 300-year history of slavery in mainland North America, with respect to peoples of African descent…to argue otherwise among professional historians, is now widely understood to be anachronistic and ahistorical..still wedded to a mythology of our founders as unimpeachable heroes and our founding as divine event.”, can’t wait to read, evocative preface!
— Jan 29, 2026 09:22AM
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“But having a terrestrial and not a celestial origin, we find no difficulty in ascertaining its meaning, in all the parts which we allege relate to slavery.”
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“We all suffer from the history we are taught.”
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“The story of Black America cannot be disentangled from the story of America.” / “As if we could stop knowing how to know what we know.” “The United States is a nation founded on both an ideal and a lie.”
“Once transposed into metaphor, slavery could serve to unite White colonists of whatever region under a banner of White exclusivity.”
