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June 24, 2014

Why Do So Few Blacks Study the Civil War?

“We are invited to listen, but never to truly join the narrative, for to speak as the slave would, to say that we are as happy for the Civil War as most Americans are for the Revolutionary War, is to rupture the narrative.”

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From last week: Ta-Nehisi Coates on the Longform Podcast.

Ta-Nehisi Coates The Atlantic Nov 2011 15min Permalink