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“In every aspect and among almost every demographic, how American society digested and processed the long, dark chapter between the end of the Civil War and the beginning of the civil rights movement has been delusion.”

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Book:Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II
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“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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Book:Slavery by Another Name: The re-enslavement of black americans from the civil war to World War Two
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