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The historical roots of racism in the United States rest on a convergence of early colonial labor systems, transatlantic slavery, legal codification of race, and the social invention of whiteness to secure elite power and social hierarchy.
held views about race that by modern standards include explicitly racist statements and support for policies like voluntary colonization, yet he also opposed , issued the Emancipation Proclamation, an...
has been a persistent tool in racist caricature, used across centuries to dehumanize people of African descent and to justify unequal treatment from slavery through and into the modern political momen...