Centuries
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Overcoming the legacy of
centuries
of slavery and racism to elect a black president in 2008 and again in 2012 seemed to embody the country’s capacity to reinvent and renew itself.
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Despite
centuries
of animosity, decades of violence and thousands of people killed, 1998 saw the conclusion of an historic agreement.
And it should take into account what we know of the aesthetic interests of isolated hunter-gatherer bands that survived into the 19th and the 20th
centuries.
These crude tools were around for thousands of centuries, until around 1.4 million years ago when Homo erectus started shaping single, thin stone blades, sometimes rounded ovals, but often in what are to our eyes an arresting, symmetrical pointed leaf or teardrop form.
That had not happened in the three
centuries
in which African Americans had been on that soil at that time.
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