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Opinion: American slaves fled to places like Windsor, though racism continues

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59% Informative

U.S. is mired in our inability to cope with racial diversity, says Randy Essex .

Moments of hard-fought progress are inevitably followed by backlash and regression, he says.

Our Civil War stamped out slavery at the cost of at least 650,000 lives and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln .

VR Score

67

Informative language

67

Neutral language

15

Article tone

semi-formal

Language

English

Language complexity

61

Offensive language

likely offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

detected

Time-value

short-lived

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9

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