When I was an elementary school student in the 1950s, in the Deep South (Florida), I recall that our history book had two mentions of slavery. One of them was that “overseers” were merciless men with whips, and oftentimes themselves were slaves. The other was the ludicrous mention of the plantation-owner’s wife, “tending to a sick slave.”
Obviously, the truth was being white-washed (play on words intended). I remember no mention of small children being sold away from their mothers, an unimaginable cruelty. Nor do I recall mention that it was illegal to teach a slave to read and write.
Today, that book would be rightly denounced. The only reason to preserve it would be as a museum piece, an example of state indoctrination of youth.
Times change—or do they?Republican presidential candidate Tim Scott, who is black, rebuked Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis for defending Florida’s curriculum regarding slavery. That curriculum contains a […]
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