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Politics
Slavery was never secure in America. Its existence depended on the cultural and physical repression of blacks and whites, both of which group suffered for the benefit of a slaveholding minority. Book burning and other attempts at thought control became common in the American South during the nineteenth century. Slavery fostered self-delusion, hypocrisy, and violence. It perverted religion and the law. The slave system, in addition to being morally corrupt, was economically detrimental to the majority of Southerners, a fact that the slaveholders had to hide from the majority at any cost…
Civil Rights Movement to Black Revolution
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