Brianna’s Reviews > An African American and Latinx History of the United States > Status Update
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"As a student of African heritage growing up in Santa Cruz...the role my ancestors played in the development of the country was never revealed. Slavery was always downplayed in favor of glorifying Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation. How was I to regard my heritage with confidence while the environment I was raised in depicted Africans as nothing but slaves saved by a white man?"
— Feb 09, 2021 02:19PM
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"The cash rewards for turning in fugitives as well as the expectation that white people would offer the authorities information on runaways is a reminder that the minority of slave-holding colonists depended on the vigilance of the majority who did not own slaves to police the system."
— Feb 11, 2021 02:06PM