Charles SimicLike many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps.
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Winston Churchill was a British politician and writer. In 1947, he delivered a speech in the United States before a joint session of Congress, in which he offered a very critical view of the treatment of Native Americans during the colonial era. In particular, Churchill said that "Like many others, I grew up in an age that preached liberty and built slave camps." He used this speech to draw attention to the history of American treatment of Native Americans from the time of Christopher Columbus until 1956.
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