Chattel slavery. The owning and trafficking of humans has been around since the beginning of time. But slavery in the United States was especially harsh and cruel. At the beginning of the war we now call the 'Civil War,' there was a rhetoric used about 'protecting our way of life,' or 'preserving the union.' The reality is that is war was  about the continuation of slavery in the United States. Since our podcast is designed around health care disparities, black infant mortality,  and black maternal health we're going to build in how the aftermath of the war and Jim Crow laid the foundation fo inequities reduced access to health care that exists to this day. But first, we talk about Juneteenth.