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Black Friday Then, Two Records Now
A special episode. Two records answer the Black Friday question. One was carried by mouth: Black families passing down that the day after Thanksgiving carried slave-sale meaning, in the late-fall selling season after harvest. The other is what print kept — and the paper was controlled by the people who barred enslaved people from reading and writing it. Marcus and Denise tell both, labeled honestly: the oral tradition, the suppression record behind the paper's silence, and the name's print trail from an 1869 gold crash to a 1980s retail makeover. 📚 From the 'Left Out of the History Books'…
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