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Over many years of doing anti-racist work among whites I have learned that the role of slavery in the formation of the economics, politics and culture of the United States is not well taught or well understood. That’s unfortunate, because when it comes to the connection between slavery then and white racism now, William Faulkner’s famous line “The past isn’t dead. It isn’t even past.” could not be more appropriate. Visiting the Old Slave Mart in Charleston, South Carolina There is a rack outside the lobby of the Hilton Garden Inn in Charleston.

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