Wednesday, January 16, 2013

William Jelani Cobb:

On the hundred-and-fiftieth anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation, it's worth recalling that slavery was made unsustainable largely through the efforts of those who were enslaved.  The record is replete with enslaved blacks -- even so-called house slaves -- who poisoned slaveholders, destroyed crops, "accidentally" burned down buildings.

"What 'Lincoln' misses and another Civil War film gets right"

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