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Old 01-01-2014, 11:57 AM
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Originally Posted by icenine View Post
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
I try to use that in all of my dealings with history and people,makes it a little easier to take.
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