Vice President Kamala Harris is on her way to Puerto Rico, which is marking two historic events this week: the abolition of slavery and a United States-backed massacre that left 21 Puerto Ricans dead. Decades before the U.S. invaded Puerto Rico and made it a U.S. colony, slavery was abolished on March 22, 1873. It was freedom on paper: Many enslaved Black people were forced to work an additional…
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