Radio: Senate Apology for Slavery Gets Mixed Reaction, Duration: 11:31

Radio: Senate Apology for Slavery Gets Mixed Reaction, Duration: 11:31

06/24/2009

Radio

National Public Radio presents a 2009 radio segment that provides two accounts of how the Senate's apology for the United States's participation in the slave trade was received and how its reception speaks to the treatment of African Americans by the federal government as well as American society in general in the United States since the ratification of the 13th Amendment--which abolished slavery and involuntary servitude except in cases where it is used as punishment for a crime.

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