And it's not like we're completely different from every other "country". Everyone everywhere came from somewhere else - or from someone else. It's just that here in the western hemisphere, the migration seems to date to a more recent past, and so we think we can get our heads around the history a little easier(?), knowing we don't have to trace our origins back to a time before about 20,000 years ago.
The point there being that everything is derivative. Everything came out of something else - we don't have any kind of history that belongs solely to us.
So we don't have American History without Black History.
The TransAtlantic Slave Trade
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