“Chattel Slavery Made America Great!”: The Purging and Rewriting of Black History

Politicians not only want to purge Black history, but they want to rewrite it to make slavery and White supremacy sound beautiful.

Savannah Worley
Momentum
Published in
7 min readJul 23, 2023

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A silhouette of a man against a hazy sundown sky. One of his wrists is chained down. He is holding up a lightbulb in his other hand and looking at it with an open mouth, as if he’s going to eat it.
Photo by Clement Eastwood on Pexels

During my freshman year of college, I was required to take a history class for my journalism major. I recall…

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Savannah Worley
Momentum

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