American slavery: Separating fact from myth
- Written by Daina Ramey Berry, Associate Professor of History and African and African Diaspora Studies, University of Texas at Austin
Five generations of a slave family. ShutterstockPeople think they know everything about slavery in the United States, but they don’t. They think the majority of African slaves came to the American colonies, but they didn’t. They talk about 400 years of slavery, but it wasn’t. They claim all Southerners owned slaves, but they...