Dreaming of a Whitewashed Christmas: Slavery, Myths and the Lost Cause.

While Christmas is often remembered as a time of joy and tradition, its history during American slavery was deliberately rewritten. This episode of IDKMYDE, our Host, B Daht, unpacks how Lost Cause propaganda used romanticized Christmas stories to sanitize slavery -- and what enslaved people actually endured during the holidays.

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