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From Nottoway To Monticello,15 Slave Plantations With Brutal Backstories

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Although generations have passed since the American Civil War, slavery’s past still taunts Black Americans in the form of Confederate flags and southern plantations. In fact, there remains hundreds of plantations in the American south— many of which are still privately owned by descendants of slave masters. Read more…

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5 Inconvenient, Ugly Truths About America’s ‘Founding Fathers’ And Slavery

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In the new History Channel documentary series “Thomas Jefferson,” America’s third president claimed that he had a plan to free enslaved Black Americans years before the American Revolution. Jefferson wrote in his memoir, “Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson,” that in 1769 he and his cousin proposed a bill that would… Read more…

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