“The bondage of the Negro brought captive from Africa is one of the greatest dramas in history, and the writer who merely sees in that ordeal something to approve or condemn fails to understand the evolution of the human race.”

—  Carter G. Woodson, book The Mis-Education of the Negro

Source: The Mis-Education of the Negro

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