There is great current interest in the history of slavery in America and its legacy. What has stimulated this, 157 years after slavery was abolished? The Black Lives Matter movement that emerged following the killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in 2020 and the New York Times’s 1619 Project brought new attention to the problem of racism in U.S. history. Also, persistent achievement gaps between African Americans and other Americans raise questions about the ongoing socioeconomic effects of enslavement and subsequent segregation and racism.
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