News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the Names Behind the Numbers. Parent comment

Re:Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the N... by TT3351 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:23AM (#25431091)
Because a proportion of America has been poorly educated, it's inappropriate to interrogate the primary sources slaves left behind? I don't follow.

Yeah, obviously we need to fix the appalling state of our Civil War and slavery history in this country.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the N... by jpster on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @10:47AM (#25431311)
Does the account you posted here resemble most of the chronicled experiences you’ve encountered?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Who Were America’s Enslaved? New Database Humanizes the N... by TT3351 on Tuesday December 15, 2020 @11:27AM (#25431751)
Nope! Never said it did. EDIT: Literally just picked a random (that I thought would fit in the space I had--didn't want to go over-long) passage from the Freedman's interviews section of the book.
[ Parent | on HN ]