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Kathy Roberts Forde
Kathy Roberts Forde is a U.S. journalism historian and associate professor at the University of Massachusetts Amherst's journalism department.
Why Juneteenth didn't end the exploitation of black labor
By Kathy Roberts Forde and Bryan Bowman | June 19, 2018
Even after slavery was abolished, the forced labor of black Americans lived on.
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