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The painful, cutting and brilliant letters Black people wrote to their former enslavers

By IBW21Editors' Choice, Reparations

These letters from Black Americans to the people who once controlled their lives show a desire for freedom and a desperate longing to be reunited with their families. By Gillian…

March 16, 2022

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The painful, cutting and brilliant letters Black people wrote to their former enslavers

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