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Ida Bae Wells
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Tweeps, I need your help. I'm trying to get an idea of how American schools teach slavery. Would you please send me pictures/links of textbooks that show the passages on slavery and tell me in what grades the books are being taught? You can DM or email me nhannahjones@nytimes.com
What is not helpful is you telling me schools don't use textbooks. I am clearly asking for info on the schools that do. If there are handouts, other *official* curriculum outside of textbooks, please feel free to send along. Otherwise, thanks but no thanks.
Has anyone found textbooks that mention the Founding Father’s grappling with slavery at the time of the Revolution? Or that talk to the broader reliance on slavery in the development of modern American capitalism?
@KevinMKruse knows about k-12 textbooks?
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