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downboots
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https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?year_start=1800&year_e...
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lukas099
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Cool! Seems about what I'd expect for an initially illiterate, persecuted minority's culture-specific holiday.
downboots
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oddly specific
blackqueeriroh
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Just to be clear, Africans had writing, reading, mathematics, science, medicine, and more millennia before Europeans did. [1]
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https://www.asbmb.org/asbmb-today/science/020113/great-achie...
lukas099
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Yes, good addition—and in case it wasn’t clear, I was talking about how most slaves weren’t allowed to learn to read or write.
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