Don’t mention that some free blacks and Native Americans owned slaves as well or heads will explode.

Now before someone tries to assert that I’m excusing the institution of slavery, I am not. What I am asserting is the outrage over that one sentence is selective and completely fails to take historical context into account. As much as some want to believe that sentence was written by Ron DeSantis while wearing a hood and robe, it was not. It was composed by a panel of black scholars presenting a picture of the resourcefulness and rise from extreme adversity by those directly affected by slavery.

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