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[-] livus@kbin.social 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The standard therefore isn’t completely wrong, but it absolutely gives the impression that these cases were waaaay more common than they actually were.

It's also dishonest because it leaves out the limitations that slavery put on those same people.

One of them could have been the next Mozart but we will never know because they weren't allowed to do anything more than hire themself out as a piano tuner at wages far below those a white person would get.

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