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Originally Posted by icenine
I think we tend to view history in the abstract....
put yourself in the actual shoes of a slave and look at the slavery from that viewpoint.
I had this famous professor once who liked to say that you have realize that history happens to REAL people...
John Gaddis
he is at Yale now
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I try to use that in all of my dealings with history and people,makes it a little easier to take.