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Read MoreReview of Collective Amnesia by Online Book Club
By Rosemary Wright » 14 Mar 2019 Official OnlineBookClub.org review of “Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid” by Dr. Eugene DeFriest Bétit ________________________________________ 4 out of 4 stars ________________________________________ Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid, by Dr. Eugene DeFriest Bétit, contains the history of racism in the United States. It tells about the racial prejudice against African Americans since…
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Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid, African Americans’ 400 Years in North America, 1619-2019 Chapter One Racism and White Supremacy: America’s “Original Sin?” Chapter Two Slavery: America’s “Peculiar Institution” Chapter Three United States Colored Troops — and Black Confederates Chapter…
Read MoreCollectlive Amnesia Press Release
Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid, African Americans’ 400 Years in North America 1619-2019, is a comprehensive study of the treatment African Americans have encountered since arriving in Virginia in 1619. The book documents a saga of racism and white supremacy, history seldom taught in school. Numerous tables, photographs, maps, charts, and extensive endnotes make the study…
Read MoreCollective Amnesia: American Apartheid Published!
After three years of research and writing, plus three and a half months of struggling to obtain copyright permissions for the graphics in the book, Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid, African Americans’ 400 Years in North America, 1619-2019, is finally available at BarnesandNoble.com, Amazon.com and the publisher, Xlibris. In due time it will be available on…
Read MoreLincoln’s Views on Slavery
For a man with nearly no formal education, Abraham Lincoln was one of our most intelligent and capable presidents. He wisely conceded, “American slavery…belongs to our politics, to our industries, to our commerce and to our religion. Every portion of our territory in some form or other has contributed to the growth and to the…
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