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| Slavery's heavy hand May 31, 2012 10:47 am | Claude Fischer In an earlier post, I mused about the notion of the "heavy hand of history," the idea that long-past conditions pull us in certain directions even generations after the fateful events. One of the very earliest users of the phrase, in 1944, was an eminent psychologist who was trying to understand the situation of African Americans 80 years after Emancipation. Now, a just-published study reinforces the point, showing that the deeper a southern county's immersion in slavery in 1860, the greater the black-white inequality in that county in 2000. 1862 slave family (LC-USZCN4-280) Slavery and poverty Heather A. O'Connell finds that the higher ... More > | ||
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Thursday, May 31, 2012
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