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Hello and welcome back to Unveiling the Matrix. Today's episode will be titled "Juneteenth." 

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There have been countless books written about Abraham Lincoln, but John Avlon’s new book, Lincoln and the Fight for Peace, takes a different tact. Chronicling the last days of Lincoln’s life after the most bloody war in our history, Avlon looks at the plans for peace that he calls Lincoln’s “unfinished symphony.” 

John Avlon is a senior political analyst and anchor at CNN and the author of Independent Nation, Wingnuts, and Washington’s Farewell, which covers George Washington’s farewell address and its seminal mark on our nation. Previously Avlon served as editor-in-chief and managing director of The Daily Beast and as chief speechwriter for the Mayor of New York after the attacks of 9/11.

"Heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place of man's habitation," wrote Captain John Smith as he sailed the Chesapeake Bay.  Yet Bernard Demczuk explains the stories unfolded differently for men of color on the Bay's shores.  Endentured servants and slaves cleared the land to produce first tobacco crops.  When fewer whites immigrated to the American colonies, slave labor and its Atlantic trade grew.  Listen to Professor Demczuk recount the codification of laws, codifying prejudice ways.    

Unionville, a town just outside of Easton, Maryland was created through the generosity of a Quaker family to right those wrongs during the Civil War, a testament to a spiritual journey that continues today, one of love of country and brotherhood of man.

In this episode we discuss the laws put in place after slavery was abolished in America, which in many cases were just slavery by another name. These laws were created specifically for disenfranchisement and exclusion, and they formed the foundation of the the system and laws we have today. 

Abraham Lincoln's racial attitudes were complicated. He was willing to defend fugitive slaves and appears to have lived in what was (for its time) an integrated neighborhood. But he also defended a slaveholder in court, and advocated for schemes to persuade African-Americans to leave the land of their birth.