Ta-Nehisi Coates - For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that i...

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For nearly a century and a half, this country deluded itself into thinking that its greatest calamity, the Civil War, had nothing to do with one of its greatest sins, enslavement. It deluded itself in this manner despite available evidence to the contrary.

Ta-Nehisi Coates

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Deutsche Übersetzung

Fast anderthalb Jahrhunderte lang täuschte sich dieses Land in dem Glauben, dass sein größtes Unglück, der Bürgerkrieg, nichts mit einer seiner größten Sünden, der Versklavung, zu tun hatte. Sie hat sich auf diese Weise trotz gegenteiliger Beweise getäuscht.

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