I once subbed at a school for the blind. In one of the high school classes I was in one student of African American descent made a true statement about slavery. A white young man told her to stop talking about slavery. I told him she was accurately giving information. He was clearly upset. I had asked him if he was alright. He then told me that he feels bad and uncomfortable with what she was saying because he was white. The young man, naturally, couldn't see my race. I told him I was white as well and I too feel horrible that our country has this period in our history but we cannot ignore it.

Interesting article, scary actually, how ignorant people are.

The better one is how the Jim crow laws persisted into the 60's and 70s long after emancipation. And the laws preventing marriage between races

Very interesting....an uncomfortable truth for many I’m sure. Incredible that so many white Americans have been wilfully ignorant of the slave trade and would even now argue about how it was necessary for the plantation owners to keep slaves. Well, of course they could have run their tobacco and cotton plantations using freemen and women, by paying them instead of buying them from the slave market, but they wouldn’t have made so much money or been able to build such magnificent mansions...it was greed and lack of humanity which drove them to keep and mistreat slaves.