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Slavery Remembrance
With Holocaust Remembrance events going on this week, the importance of remembering our history once again comes to the forefront. On my campus there are prominent displays of Holocaust Remembrance
This had lead me to wonder: should we have a Slavery Remembrance Day or Week, etc.? The legacy of slavery is one of the building blocks of our nation and there is no way to adquately grasp and understand United States history without it, yet not a greal is known generally about that peculiar institution. There is already a day called Juneteenth which honors the day the last slaves of African descent in the United States were freed by the Union Army, but only a small number of Americans know anything about Juneteenth (or slavery at all for that matter).
NOTE: This is not a comparison of the worst genocide ever in Western history. Holocaust Remembrance is mentioned merely a point of reference for discussion, not the crux of it.
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