Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 25: Slavery and the founding principles of the US
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Sean Wilentz reminds us of the key role that slavery played in the development of what we know by names such as Western culture and European values: "A fixture and force in Western culture, time out of mind, slavery, and more specifically racial slavery, had been essential to the European settlement of the New World ever since the Portuguese pioneered the plantation system with enslaved African labor in the sixteenth century." (
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 25: Slavery and the founding principles of the US
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 25…
Confederate "Heritage" Month 2022, April 25: Slavery and the founding principles of the US
Sean Wilentz reminds us of the key role that slavery played in the development of what we know by names such as Western culture and European values: "A fixture and force in Western culture, time out of mind, slavery, and more specifically racial slavery, had been essential to the European settlement of the New World ever since the Portuguese pioneered the plantation system with enslaved African labor in the sixteenth century." (