Teaching about slavery
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Tuesday, September 21, 2021
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The vacuum created by our public-school teaching has been filled by many myths about slavery.
Key Points:
- The vacuum created by our public-school teaching has been filled by many myths about slavery.
- But slavery existed in all 13 colonies, she writes.
- Asking how to teach about slavery is a little like asking why we teach at all, Blight writes.
- How can we not teach about this deeply human and American story and so many others like it?