Carolina QuotesThe racism we are fighting today was originally conjured to justify working unfree Black people, often until death, to generate extravagant riches for ... all the ancillary white people ... who earned their living and built their wealth from that free Black labor.
Nikole Hannah-Jones Connected to the Carolinas
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