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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.”

“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!