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Enslaved people's health was ignored from the country's beginning, laying the groundwork for today's health disparities

  • Written by Eric Kyere, Assistant professor, social work, Indiana University
Enslaved people's health was ignored from the country's beginning, laying the groundwork for today's health disparitiesFreed slaves on the plantation of Confederate General Thomas F. Drayton in Hilton Head, South Carolina. This photograph was taken circa 1865.Getty Images / CORBIS

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