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BY GARY D. ROBERTSON (AP)
RALEIGH - The North Carolina House formally apologized last week "for the injustice, cruelty and brutality of slavery," becoming the latest state to offer its regret.
The unanimous House vote, similar to the one previously passed by the Senate, acknowledged the state's Jim Crow laws and other legalized segregation that Blacks were subjected to.
Both resolutions recount a long history of discrimination against North Carolina's Black population starting with the practices of "involuntary servitude" while a British colony in the 17th century. Could the South be America's leader in the healing of race relations?
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