The Skanner News - Why Separating Fact From Fiction Is Critical in Teaching Us Slavery

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 instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.”

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