I'm passing this story on for a little history lesson.
Enjoy.
"So, let’s begin with our beginning in this country – the Transatlantic Slave Trade.
Over the course of more than three and a half centuries, the forcible transportation in bondage of at least twelve million men, women, and children from their African homelands to the Americas changed forever the face and character of the modern world. The slave trade was brutal and horrific, and the enslavement of Africans was cruel, exploitative, and dehumanizing. Together, they represent one of the longest and most sustained assaults on the very life, integrity, and dignity of human beings in history..." (read more.)
(This is re-blogged, courtesy of Jack and Jill Politics.)
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