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Image of the quote is loading... SaveSave Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery's full grip on U.S. Society - its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end - can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life. - Quote by Douglas A. Blackmon

Only by acknowledging the full extent of slavery’s full grip on U.S. Society – its intimate connections to present day wealth and power, the depth of its injury to black Americans, the shocking nearness in time of its true end – can we reconcile the paradoxes of current American life.

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