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Tree Lady

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10. I have learned so much in the last

Reply to wcmagumba (Original post)

Mon Nov 17, 2025, 11:07 AM

Yesterday

20 years that I never learned in school. I feel like a lot of our old history books were white washed.

This series and everything Ken Burns does opens up history to the truth.

What I was noticing last night episode 1 was they talked a lot about wanting freedom they showed a black man basically saying where is mine? Washington, a lot of the leaders had slaves.

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