Discuss how the lives of blacks have changed since the days of slavery to today.
What do you think of the Whig who was against slavery yet owned them, and who accepted his slave son and instructed him never to accept being less because he was black?
What do you think about the slaves given the last names of their owners and not having a last name of their own? How do you think this changed once they gained their freedom?
With powerful people like Thomas Jefferson stating his opinion that.....
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