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Chains Forged Long Ago

The Wall Street Journal

November 29, 2025

The Intellectual Origins of American Slavery

- BY MARK G. SPENCER

LOOKING BACK 'Ex-Slave and Wife on Steps of Plantation House Now in Decay, Greene County, Georgia' (1937), a photograph by Dorothea Lange.

This story is from the November 29, 2025 edition of The Wall Street Journal.

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