Only by acknowledging the full extent of.... : Quote by Douglas A. Blackmon

“ Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life. ”

Douglas A. Blackmon
  • From : Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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