You have endured a history of slavery and struggle, of natural disaster and recovery.
But colonialism and the history of slavery are two very different histories, very different narratives.
In an interview with The Washington Post last year, Michelle Obama talked about learning her family's past and understanding the history of slavery.
Ms. IKOKWU: I think people know about the history of slavery.
Now, what I believe, that our secondary education needs to do a better job of teaching our children about the history of slavery, about Jim Crow, and about all of those problematic areas in this country.
"It got me thinking about 500 years of history of Columbus, slavery, thuggish leaders, dysfunction, natural disasters all the things that set the condition for hundreds of thousands of people to die in a few minutes, " he said.
The exhibition consists of miniature figurines which recount the history of the slave trade and slavery with a perspective of forgiveness without forgetting.
Given the history of racism and segregation and slavery in this country, to have the inevitable outcome of the presidential race be the election (or re-election) of a black American would be a historical event, and good for the country.
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The page of history is replete with instances that loudly warn us to beware of slavery.
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But Europe's is the only civilization in the whole of history that voluntarily abolished chattel slavery.
Francess' work is currently on show the University of Hull, sponsored by WISE (Wilberforce Institute for the Study of Slavery and Emancipation) University of Hull, Women with Cameras and the Black History Partnership.
He's a founding partner of African DNA, which offers African-American clients a method of tracing their history beyond 1870, the year where federal census records end in the "black hole of slavery, " Mr. Gates says.
Rosenthal is aware that what started out as a straightforward history of business practices could become highly controversial, with some misconstruing her research as a kind of justification of slavery.
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The curriculum has been developed with the assistance of the Understanding Slavery Initiative, which encourages teachers, educators and young people to examine the history and legacies of the transatlantic slave trade through museum artefacts.
The great scholar of American politics, Judith Shklar, estimated to her graduate students that through the long run of American history, more elections at more levels of government have turned on alcohol than any other issue, including slavery.
As then prime minister Yitzhak Shamir said, the Ethiopian aliyah marked the first time in history where Africans were liberated from slavery by being taken out of Africa.
In contrast to the long black-white experience in the United States, originating in slavery, there is no long history to, or historical inherence of, anti-Muslim bigotry.
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So clearly the metaphor of slavery and the plantation is troubling in this country just because of our history.
Mass incarceration on a scale almost unexampled in human history is a fundamental fact of our country today perhaps the fundamental fact, as slavery was the fundamental fact of 1850.
Look, I think the President has spoken on any number of occasions about the stain that slavery left on this country, that throughout our history we have sought to better perfect our union and have had many bumps along the way.
But if they showed 10 minutes of it, you'd see all these different homage that are steeped in history that runs from slavery to reconstruction to post-Katrina in New Orleans.
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