There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identit — Ta-Nehisi Coates
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identit — Ta-Nehisi Coates
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identit — Ta-Nehisi Coates
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identit — Ta-Nehisi Coates
There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identit — Ta-Nehisi Coates
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There was no United States before slavery. I am sure somebody can make some sort of argument about modern French identity and slavery and North Africa, but there simply is no American history before black people.

— Ta-Nehisi Coates
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