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Why Young Americans
Need To Know these Facts 

About Slavery

Sheldon M. Stern,

an African-American 
historian at the

John F. Kennedy Library 
and Museum (1977–1999)

—where he 
designed the museum’s

first civil rights exhibit,

notes:


“Failure to educate young Americans 
about the whole story of Atlantic slave 
trade threatens to divide our nation and 
undermine our civic unity and belief in the historical legitimacy of our democratic 
institutions. Education in a democracy cannot promote half-truths about history without undermining the ideal of “e pluribus unum”—one from many—and substituting a divisive emphasis on many from one. The history of the slave trade proves that virtually everyone participated and profited -- whites and blacks; Christians, Muslims, and Jews; Europeans, Africans, Americans, and Latin Americans. 


Once we recognize the shared historical responsibility for the Atlantic slave trade, we can turn our attention to “transforming the future” by eradicating its corrosive legacy.” â€‹â€‹

Read this complete article,

 â€‹It's Time to Face the Whole Truth
about the Atlantic Slave 

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