It was so deeply ingrained in me that we had progressed beyond such primitive miseries that I have trouble getting my head around it, no matter how much evidence I see to the contrary. I know better now, but at some level it remains inconceivable to me that slavery still exists in the world. ![]() Reconstruction, Redemption, sharecropping, the bought election of 1876, Jim Crow didn’t fit the narrative of American glory and the Ultimate Triumph of Liberty. ![]() ![]() Lincoln freed the slaves and, in my northern curriculum, that was that. I learned that lesson well I was an excellent student. Lincoln, I was informed when I was nine years old, freed the slaves. Originally published at Front Porch Republic.
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