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Having studied the Civil War fairly extensively for the past 15 or more years, yes, I knew about it. But except in the context of history, I have almost never heard it mentioned.
I knew of it growing up in an urban area. There were church services and picnics. The older people talked about the happy and the sad associated with it.
But now, living in a rural mountain area, several people I know said they knew little or nothing about it. I told them some of the stories I heard as a kid. It was well received. I hope I got details correct. Oral tradition isn't perfect.
Again to remind everyone where the slave trade had significant impact (not in the US). Click on the link in that sentence. The US was a very minor slave destination.
And had Africans NOT captured and sold their continent-mates into slavery in the first place, there would have been no Atlantic slave trade.
Black people need to understand that those who cause them the most harm by far are other black people.
That is the real “slavery” today.
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