medical textbooks until after 1814. human experiments and racist propaganda were used to prove something we all know was patently false. black people did not benefit from slavery, quite obviously. but this year in florida the echoes of those falsehoods can be heard once again. yesterday the florida board of education approved new standards for black history instruction that require lessons for middle schoolers to include, quote, how slaves developed skills, which in some instances could be applied for their personal benefit. the old racist trope from the 1850s that slavery benefitted the enslaved seems to have been resurrected in florida, and middle schoolers in that state may be required to learn it. more on that unlearning of american history is coming up next with my guest journalist and dean jeloni cobb. jeloni cob