“Chattel Slavery Made America Great!”: The Purging and Rewriting of Black History

During my freshman year of college, I was required to take a history class for my journalism major. I recall that U.S. History was one of the few classes with open slots. I was not excited — I was not looking forward to memorizing dates of when old white men declared wars and reading about how they committed genocide against Native Americans. But I reluctantly signed up for it. The White professor I had was very energetic and loud, making it impossible to take naps like I used to do during history class in high school. I doodled most of the time, ignoring him. That was until one day when he said: “A lot of people say slavery was bad, but I don’t think that’s so. Someone had to do the work.” <a href="https://momentum.medium.com/chattel-slavery-made-america-great-the-purging-and-rewriting-of-black-history-f9b3fe0130c3">Visit Now</a>