I Believe In Slavery Research Paper

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Slavery has affected the world in all sorts of different ways. Some people today still believe in slavery and some do not. Some people are still racist and that will probably never change but a lot more people accept different ethnicities of people and their cultures. I do not believe in slavery and i think it is very god that people have gotten past slavery and let people have the freedoms that everyone deserves. I understand that some people are still racist and believe in slavery. It is more understanding of the older people that are racist because that’s just how they were raised. But some people are racist just because they don’t like them for some reason. Even when blacks were starting to get their rights they still didn’t get

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