Racism And Slavery

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Once I read a book I forgot what it was named but it was about racism and slavery. But anyway in the book there was a rich white family that had slaves to work on their farm and around the house. The white family also had a couple of children that were stubborn and thought very highly of themselves. But the youngest one wasn’t like his other siblings. He was confuse and didn’t really understand why black people were their slaves and had to do everything they said. So one day his mother and father went on a business trip to expand their farm the youngest child started to become friends with all the slaves’ children. Then once his parents returned and they saw and heard about their son playing with the younger slaves they got furious. The parents

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