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Opinion | We Still Can’t See American Slavery for What It Was - The New York Times
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Data science is unlocking insights about the U.S. slave system, but there is a danger in trying to quantify suffering.
Advertisement Continue reading the main story The historian Marcus Rediker opens “ The Slave Ship: A Human History ” with a harrowing reconstruction of the journey, for a captive, from shore to ship: The ship grew larger and more terrifying with every vigorous stroke of the paddles. The smells grew stronger and the sounds louder — crying and wailing from one quarter and low, plaintive singing from another; the anarchic noise of children given an underbeat by hands drumming on wood; the odd comprehensible word or two wafting through: someone asking for menney, water, another laying a curse, app
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