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Why separating fact from fiction is critical in teaching US slavery

  • Written by Eric Gable, Professor of Anthropology, University of Mary Washington
imageA Black actor in 1974 impersonating an enslaved man in Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia.George Bryant/Toronto Star via Getty Images

Of all the debate over teaching U.S. slavery, it is one sentence of Florida’s revised academic standards that has provoked particular ire: “Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some...

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