Charleston SC 100 years after slavery was officially abolished
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20 Africans were landed in America in 1619, one year before the Mayflower. By 1860, there were 4 million black men, women, and children, the private property of white America. The new world meant possession to the white man. It meant dispossession to the black man. Slavery was an attitude as much as a condition, and attitudes black land can be inherited. On the plantation outside Charleston, where his family has lived for eight generations since 1672, Norwood Hasty was asked if he thinks slavery was immoral. No. No, I don't. Because uh when a slave came from Africa, he couldn't speak the language. He was totally untrained to do any any job at all that would fit in with the civilization. Someone had to take care of him. Someone had to take
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