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@[email protected] to United States | News & [email protected]English • 2 years ago

'Do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial'

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'Do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial'

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Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery because it taught them skills. This change is part of the African American history standards the State Board of Education approved at a Wednesday meeting. The description of slavery as beneficial is not t...
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    Right, but take the converse: if they didn’t own land, they definitely couldn’t afford a slave.

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      also true… wiki will explain it better: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Necessity_and_sufficiency

      owning a plantation is necessary to be a slaver but it is not sufficient since you actually have to own the slaves.

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