America’s Original Sin

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This week, read Annette Gordon-Reed on the United States’ struggle to grapple with the legacy of slavery.

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In our next summer reading installment, Annette Gordon-Reed examines the history of white supremacy in the United States from the eighteenth century to the present. Racially based slavery warped the country’s prospects from the beginning, Gordon-Reed writes, and its abolition did not erase the corrosive ideas that upheld the system for generations and that continue to destroy American lives today.

America’s Original Sin

Slavery and the Legacy of White Supremacy

By Annette Gordon-Reed

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