http://www.diversityinc.com/diversity-and-inclusion/discover-americas-black-history/ DiversityInc: Diversity and the Bottom Line Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:27:56 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://www.diversityinc.com/diversity-and-inclusion/discover-americas-black-history/comment-page-1/#comment-2269 AAA Fri, 06 Jan 2012 14:23:00 +0000 http://diversityinc.com/?p=12477#comment-2269 One thing that Diversity Inc can commit to doing is to stop using the term “African SLAVES.” Individuals kidnapped from Africa were artisans, farmers, leaders, etc. . .To reduce them to the function that America reserved for them. . .misusing them as “slaves”. . .supports the lie that that was all they were and that they had no other lives before that. Even African descendants born into enslavement knew that they were more and wanted more, as numerous resistance rebellions, run-aways, and “slave narratives” denouncing the institution of enslavement clearly show.

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