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Slave Trade Revisionism ! - ketchim - 01-16-2016
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/06/us/publisher-promises-revisions-after-textbook-refers-to-african-slaves-as-workers.html?WT.mc_id=2016-KWP-INTL_AUD_DEV&WT.mc_ev=click&ad-keywords=IntlAudDev&kwp_0=85438&kwp_4=450660&kwp_1=253752&_r=0
“we was real hard workers, wasn’t we.†:-[
Re: Slave Trade Revisionism ! - ketchim - 01-16-2016
Europeans were "indentured labour "..... :
Re: Slave Trade Revisionism ! - ketchim - 01-17-2016
So lets eliminate the word SLAVE :
from all books ...not only McGraw Hill
Re: Slave Trade Revisionism ! - briannagodess - 01-18-2016
I think history should be told as it is. And this is one case of where history is changed a bit just to gloss over important information, which in this case is slavery. I commend the young boy for seeing this mistake of the book publisher and helping to maintain the history as what it should be.
Re: Slave Trade Revisionism ! - ketchim - 01-18-2016
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I think history should be told as it is.
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Agreed !