DON’T FORGET SLAVERY
By Johnson, Evelyn Allen | |
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I implore you, not to forget slavery, which is the most shameful, disgraceful and evil
blight in America's history. Slavery lasted for over 400 years and was the black man's holocaust An entire race of people were demonized to justify it's existence. America thrived due to slavery. Slave labor was the basis of America's economy. Products, particularly cotton produced by slave labor brought wealth to the south and established industrialization in the norm. Shipbuilding, essential tor bringing stolen humans to America's shores, added further to enrich the New England States. America's foundation was built with slave labor and the country saved by the participating sacrifices of black Americans who have fought and died in every one of its wars. The first man to die in the Revolutionary War was
Ignorance continues to exist in the recognition of contributions made to America by Afro-Americans. Not only did the black man build this country's foundation and light for it's survival, Afro-Americans have made countless contributions which have enhanced and enriched America. These contributions enabled white Americans and white emigrants to prosper and build personal wealth which enhanced them and prevails to enrich their descendants today, as well as their future generations. Segregation and discrimination denied Afro Americans the same opportunities to attain the wealth and prosperity they, as descendants of slaves, made possible for others. Wealth was denied and in some instances stolen from black Americans. Some were able to achieve in spile of the monumental odds set against them. Their talents and genius have been unrecognized, and those able to produce under continuous and relentless, negative pressure have been denied recognition. The fruits of their talent and labor have been deliberately eliminated from our history books and documentary media It is for these
DON'T FORGET SLAVERY
reasons that I, having been blessed as an author, will continue my efforts to educate the reader to the truth regarding black life in America and destroy prevailing stereotypes. This is possible only because my late husband,
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