Time to End Myth About ‘Stable’ Slave Families

There’s a persistent myth in America that slavery was “an idyllic world of stable families headed by married parents,” writes Tera Hunter—a myth that Michele Bachmann and Rick Santorum’s endorsement of the “Marriage Vow” served to highlight. It’s time for us to understand the truth, writes Hunter in the…

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Time to End Myth About ‘Stable’ Slave Families

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