textbook the growth of the american republic written by the prominent historians samuel morrison and henry calmenter had a two-page section out of 830 pages on slavery that began and i am quoting it as for sambo who's wrongs moved the abolitionists to wrath and tears. there was some reason to believe that they suffered less than any other class in the south. if i made peculiar institution end quote this absurdity is followed by assurances that the slaves were happy saying and danced and learned a lot from their masters who never used violence. we were supposed to believe that nonsense you don't have to what we now see clearly as it is that in a single decade of the 1860s thousands of americans discovered human inequality and invented a clear understanding of legal inequality that has formed the foundation for every struggle for positive change. since >> today's lecture takes place 200 years prior to that event and creole. 1619 group of 32 african men, women, and children arrived on the shores. they had been kidnapped in angola and forced aboard the spanish slave ship.