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The topic of slavery is like an electric fence. Touch it and people will react.
Before the American Revolution there were frequent slave uprisings, and a lot of people would run away.
It's not a common thing for a Southern white family to go out and seek their black cousins.
Slavery in West Africa, and in Rome and in the Mediterranean, was something different than slavery in America.
All of us in the Ball family in South Carolina, from the time we're children, hear stories about our ancestors, the slave owners.
If you read the memoirs of slave-owning families, you'd be hard pressed to find evidence of black people in the lives of the whites, even though... →
There are, after all, between seventy-five thousand and a hundred thousand descendants of the Ball-family slaves. If I were to begin apologizing to... →
There was a uniqueness to the American case of slavery. 10 million people, a conservative estimate, were brought to America... hundreds of people... →
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