their consequences of slavery. this is 200-page document. not all those pages were about slavery, but it requires teaching about heart conditions, requires teaching about the middle passage and one sentence as you quoted the fact that enslaved people developed skills which in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit. now, some people are interpreting that to mean there s a silver lining to slavery. there are some instances they used and that is true. right? after the civil war people went to work and used the skills they had many of which were they could also not been enslaved and developed those skills. what s the point including that sentence? the point of almost every ap curriculum about slavery teaches the fact there were specialized trades. there were slaves that learned blacksmithing, for instance. and you may object to the phrasing of this, but you can t object to the meeng of it. how is it not akin to say if
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be applied for their personal benefit. now, some people are interpreting that to mean there was a silver lining to slavery. that s not what it says. it says they developed some skills that in some instances they used, right? that is true, right? people after the civil war, people went to work, and they used the skills that they had. right. many of which were they could have also not been enslaved and developed those skills. what s the point of including that sentence? well, almost every a.p. history curriculum about slavely teaches the fact that there were specialized trades. that were slaves that learned blacksmithing, for instance. you may object to the phrasing of this, but you can t object to the meaning of it. if you get kidnapped, you learned survival skills. why would you ever say that to somebody who was kidnappkidnapp? what s the benefit in pointing this out? i think the bigger story for me is you have tim scott, nikki haley, sort of these pawns being propped up,
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factual. i mean, the idea of somebody learning some blacksmithing skills while they were enslaved, and that somehow something they were able to parlay it just seems a really inappropriate rewriting of history. it s a very inappropriate way to rewrite history. the leg irons i suspect were tooken off of them so they could turn it into gates. i know a whole lot about blacksmithing in south carolina. phillip simmons, we used to celebrate him all the time. but that s not what this is. this is about whether or not people are being held against their will, irrespective of what their duties and responsibilities are to that system that they have brought into and did not ask to come into. i ve been saying for years that we should teach the full history
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