# Controversial kids coloring book with happy US slaves - Acceptable?

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**Created:** [January 19, 2016, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/controversial-kids-coloring-book-with-happy-us-slaves-acceptable/743579 "2016-01-19T15:37:21Z")\
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> [@Freudian\_Slit](#):
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> Also, isn’t your statement disputed by works such as The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and 12 Years a Slave, as well as Sojourner Truth’s speeches?

No, I explicitly said that there certainly were cases of great horror and that those served well as tentpole cases for striking against slavery.

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