• abysmalpoptart@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    I think what he’s saying is that they were born into slavery. Yes, they were later freed, but they were the youngest people in that situation, and thus survived until the 1970s with some actual living memory of slavery.

    It’s really wild how recent that is though