Racism In Slavery

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This article first explains the history of slavery that a hundred or more years ago people then were fighting against having blacks as a slave and as time went on slavery was abolished. Then in Charlottesville a protest of white racist walked the streets to chant about white supremacy over the black people, how the whites were the superior race and how they wanted to take back their land. The news was gathered simply by watching the mayhem that took place and wrote as why these racist started it and the background of slavery. This article was written for the youth populations because it informs them on the history, also the eventually overcome of the white supremacists not gaining anything because the US will not fall back on previous mistakes.

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