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453. A Rescue Plan for Black America

Freakonomics Radio

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What's the a Sin in Slavery?

A quarter of all black people in america got seriously ill or died after the civil war. They are freed into starvation. Itste enemy territory. You don't own anything. Where are you going to go? But somehow, even in the midst of all that, these pockets of survival and prosperity, even papa where black beole jo say, no one's going to help us. We just have to do it ourselves. And they create economies and communities. Part of the human spirit is that it wants to work. It wants to create something. It wants to be remembered. The story should not be shearing that story....

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