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Policing in America 2020: Vestiges of Slave Patrols on Contemporary Urban 'Plantations' COURTESY PHOTOIt was Negro History Week, 1968. I couldn't wait to get home from school to tell my grandfather what I had learned. Papa, 89-years-old, still lucid and engaged, always asked about my 'lessons' in 4th grade. When I told Papa that President Lincoln freed the slaves he chuckled. I asked why? He said Lincoln hadn't freed slaves. He said President Lincoln signed a paper that changed very little. We had…]]>