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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
When did you to go school - the 50s? The notion that education and public attitudes on native Americans and slavery haven't changed is ridiculous. Are you really suggesting that American school textbooks written in the last 40 years do not acknowledge that Americans bought and sold slaves?
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Of course there is mention of slavery, but exactly like Americans gloss over the genocide of Natives and that Columbus was a monster, we also gloss over the issue of slavery. American history education goes: Revolutionary War, Founding Fathers, oh hey slavery happened and it was bad but Lincoln! And then we discuss WWI and WWII (overstating our moral superiority in both), and we also gloss over the whole Hiroshima thing for the icing on the cake.
As for schools.
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Five million public school students in Texas will begin using new social studies textbooks this fall based on state academic standards that barely address racial segregation. The state’s guidelines for teaching American history also do not mention the Ku Klux Klan or Jim Crow laws.
And when it comes to the Civil War, children are supposed to learn that the conflict was caused by “sectionalism, states’ rights and slavery” — written deliberately in that order to telegraph slavery’s secondary role in driving the conflict, according to some members of the state board of education.
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https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.was...ce1_story.html
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Coby Burren, 15, a freshman at a suburban high school south of here, was reading the textbook in his geography class last week when a map of the United States caught his attention. On Page 126, a caption in a section about immigration referred to Africans brought to American plantations between the 1500s and 1800s as “workers” rather than slaves.
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https://mobile.nytimes.com/2015/10/0...s-workers.html
So if you desperately need the semantics, yes, schools teach that slavery existed, but there are widely varying levels of how that history is treated depending on a student's state, district, textbook, teacher.
The point still stands that we gloss over what a stain slavery is on our history as a nation.