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I suspect he's referring to modern African Americans should be grateful that their ancestors were brought over here, because otherwise they would not now be over here and free. That's what the textbook claimed, as I recall.

It was an attempt to make slavery more palatable, that it wasn't "all bad". Not quite an attempt to justify slavery, but an attempt to minimize it.

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