New Florida standards teach students that some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills
Where do I begin. The thing is they could have learned these trades while not being slaves and there were probably millions who were skilled and had knowledge in whatever way before they made that journey across the Atlantic to the Americas. Acting like slavery was positive is such bullshit. And people who are pro-slavery should just admit they're pro-slavery instead of hiding it. It's always someone who believes slavery in America was not that bad because that one slaveowner they read about was nice enough to teach his slave how to read and write, even though it was illegal. All the while ignoring eyewitness accounts of slaves who escaped or tried to but were recaptured and whipped/ worked to death or the slave women who were regularly r-ped by their slave owners because they couldn't resist the "temptations of a jezebel" not to mention men and children who were also targets of s-xual assault by their slave owner or his wife and many more terrible situations that occurred on plantations.
When it comes to history, aside from the good, there are going to be parts that aren't positive and comfortable. Throughout history people did some terrible things to others, but to go as far as make a horrible point in history positive because a few people suffering from the same situation were treated a bit better is ridiculous.
When it comes to history, aside from the good, there are going to be parts that aren't positive and comfortable. Throughout history people did some terrible things to others, but to go as far as make a horrible point in history positive because a few people suffering from the same situation were treated a bit better is ridiculous.
