Chattel slavery in the United States, with its distinctive \u2013 and strikingly cruel \u2013 laws and structures, took shape over many decades in colonial America. The innovations that built American slavery are inseparable from the construction of Whiteness as we know it today. By John Biewen, with guest Chenjerai Kumanyika.\xa0
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\n\nKey sources for this episode:
\n\n\n\nIbram Kendi, Stamped from the Beginning
\n\nNell Irvin Painter, The History of White People