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BBC News - 'US not come to terms with racial history'

Historian Bernard Powers talks about the history of slavery and why it triggered the secession of southern states. Powers says the US has still not come to terms with its racial history and suffers because of it.

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When you come to this graveyard you get a sense that this is a part of me. This is where I one day need to be also to be among those giant of people, the strongest of all of us, who are buried right here.

Fred Lincoln in Charleston, South Carolina, talks about a former slave graveyard that is still used today to bury loved ones.

The story coming soon on http://bbc.com/news