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Historical roots of racism in the United States

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.

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Abraham Lincoln was secretly racist.

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...