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UK historian quits Cambridge post after slavery remarks

| July 3, 2020 8:03 AM

LONDON (AP) — British historian and TV presenter David Starkey relinquished his honorary fellowship at a University of Cambridge college Friday after he drew outrage for his comments about Black people and whether slavery should be considered genocide.

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