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Kirkus Review of Collective Amnesia: American Apartheid
COLLECTIVE AMNESIA: AMERICAN APARTHEID African Americans’ 400 Years in North America, 1619-2019 Eugene DeFriest Betit Xlibris (502 pp.); February 14, 2019 BOOK REVIEW An accomplished American historian explores the roots and effects of the mistreatment of African Americans in the United States. Much of the history in Bétit’s (War’s Cost, 2016, etc.) carefully researched and…
Read MoreCollective Amnesia: American Apartheid African Americans’ 400 Years in North America, 1619-2019 Contents
Dedicated to African Americans, Freedmen and slave Who stood by the Union in her time of trial And to their descendants Who kept the faith Despite segregation and hate Chapter One Racism and White Supremacy: America’s “Original Sin?” (25 pages) Chapter Two Slavery: America’s “Peculiar Institution” …
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