Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20140710:21:40:00
>> there need to be important qualifications. you've seen the film so you know that i admit there was a racial dehumanization in american slavery that was, in fact, unique and yet even though there were exceptions, there were approximately, for example, 3500 black slave owners, free blacks in the american south who owned more than 10,000 black slaves? small percentage. >> that's a wrinkle that undermines the idea that slavery was purely a black and white issue, but for me the more important point isn't that, it's that slavery was a universal institution, but only one nation, america, fought a ...