Lindsey Halligan, the White House official leading a review of the Smithsonian Institution, said you “can’t really talk about slavery honestly unless you talk about hope and progress” during a Newsmax appearance on Wednesday.

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    It was. The truth is they just rebranded it though. After they abolished it, a lot of the slaves we’re left homeless and jobless. They decided they needed to make vagrancy a crime and imprisoned them all. Guess what the constitution says? Slavery is abolished except for prisoners.