qurlyjoe on Nostr: The new Ken Burns series on the American Revolution makes quite clear that the nation ...

The new Ken Burns series on the American Revolution makes quite clear that the nation was born embracing slavery, clinging to it after war’s end. The “Father” of the country refused to relinquish his ownership of some apparently not-quite-equal countrymen and women. Why aren’t we taught this in our schools? Spoiler: Rhetorical question. I know why.