“They may discuss in the school system that you were a slave, but they’re not going to talk about what happened after slavery.” Her face sank. “How you were emancipated, how others came and took your land …if you got anything at all—how you weren’t given anything.” She continued: “They’re not going to tell you the real story of how you went and you fought in every war that this country has ever fought, including the Civil War, where the most people have died in this country than in every war we’ve fought in. They’re not going to tell you those things. They’re not going to put that in the
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