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memory of and no particular inclination toward understanding events that
have been watersheds in Black and Jewish histories.

In such circumstances, the meaning and lessons of the Holocaust must
be communicated to a world that cannot be permitted to forget a past hor-
ror, in the hope that it will never be tempted to repeat it. For Black Ameri-
cans, the dimensions of that horror are seen, in a special measure and a
particular light, as they are weighed against the traumas of the Black expe-
rience. Black Americans, therefore, have an especial motivation for joining
in the task of conveying to present and future generations what can happen
when racial hatred overwhelms a nation and the rest of the world is indif-
ferent to the outcome.


NOTES
1. The work was Ulrich B. Phillips, American Negro Slavery, A Survey of the Sup-
ply, Employment and Control of Negro Labor as Determined by the Plantation Regime.
New York: Appleton and Co., 1918.
2. Kenneth M. Stampp little volume, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the An-
tebellum South ( New York: Vintage, 1956), marked the demise of the Phillips' thesis
about slavery; works such as Robert W. Fogel, Stanley L. Engerman, Time on the
Cross: The Economics of American Negro Slavery (Lanham, MD: University Press of
America, 1984), have resurrected some of the unpleasant features of Phillips' argu-
ment.

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Publication Information: Book Title: Learning from History: A Black Christian's Perspective on the Holocaust. Contributors: Hubert Locke - author, Carol Rittner - editor, John Roth - editor. Publisher: Greenwood Press. Place of Publication: Westport, CT. Publication Year: 2000. Page Number: 26.
    
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