Slaves were "workers" that were "recruited" to labor in the Plantations

[JakeStarkey]

Do you know the way blacks were living when the white man first discovered them?

Do you? Pastoral, agricultural, herders, and some trading. Just like our James and Salem pioneers. Or the Native Americans, for that matter.

You make it sound like they were so... docile. In fact, as a previous post stated, they were very warring, as they are today. There is a reason very few people go to the Atlantic coast of Africa for tourism, or the eastern shores for that matter. Who wants to relax and "see the sites" in constant fear of warlords and pirates? As to there reason for the disparity in weapons...who has time to come up with new weapons when you are fighting for your life?

Which has nothing to do with 'slavery'.

 

[oldsoul]

Don't get me wrong, I believe that all slavery is wrong. It does not matter if it is "forced labor" or if it is the "soft bigotry of low expectations" that leads a group to depend on another group to meet their basic needs(i.e.career welfare).

 

[JakeStarkey]

Don't get me wrong, I believe that all slavery is wrong. It does not matter if it is "forced labor" or if it is the "soft bigotry of low expectations" that leads a group to depend on another group to meet their basic needs(i.e.career welfare).

Slaver is slavery, not 'just forced labor." It is not "soft bigotry." I cheer every time a sex slave shoots in a pimp in the face.

 

[Tank]

Do you know the way blacks were living when the white man first discovered them?

Do you? Pastoral, agricultural, herders, and some trading.

What were they herding and growing?

 

[JakeStarkey]

That is good photograph for the 1450s.

 

[koshergrl]

How do you enslave people that are your equal?

You disarm them, then do whatever you want with them.

 

[oldsoul]

How do you enslave people that are your equal?

You disarm them, then do whatever you want with them.

Even those idiots Hitler and Stalin knew that....LOL

 

[TNHarley]

Seriously? Well...that's what some of our nation's textbooks are saying thanks to the Regressives who are busy rewriting history.

Yup. There was no "slavery" - there were "forced migrations" and "workers" who labored under "slave conditions".


A mom challenges textbook description of slaves as ‘workers’ and wins | Get Schooled

Under the heading “Patterns of Immigration,” the world geography book states: “The Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.”

In its public statement, McGraw-Hill Education said:

This week, we became aware of a concern regarding a caption reference to slavery on a map in one of our world geography programs. This program addresses slavery in the world in several lessons and meets the learning objectives of the course. However, we conducted a close review of the content and agree that our language in that caption did not adequately convey that Africans were both forced into migration and to labor against their will as slaves.

We believe we can do better. To communicate these facts more clearly, we will update this caption to describe the arrival of African slaves in the U.S. as a forced migration and emphasize that their work was done as slave labor. These changes will be reflected in the digital version of the program immediately and will be included in the program’s next print run.

Seriously guys? Being captured, sold, and shipped overseas to American Slave Markets is a "forced migration"? And somehow...the condition of slavery (where human beings are owned, bred like livestock, families split up and sold, women raped because they were property....) is not "being a slave" but rather...doing slave labor?

The Texas Board of Education, one of the biggest purchasers of textbooks, is going even further to make slavery sound quaint and charming and minimizing the KKK and Jim Crowe. Sheesh.

Whats your beef? Lefties want to silence everything else about American slavery..

 

[oldsoul]

Seriously? Well...that's what some of our nation's textbooks are saying thanks to the Regressives who are busy rewriting history.

Yup. There was no "slavery" - there were "forced migrations" and "workers" who labored under "slave conditions".


A mom challenges textbook description of slaves as ‘workers’ and wins | Get Schooled

Under the heading “Patterns of Immigration,” the world geography book states: “The Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.”

In its public statement, McGraw-Hill Education said:

This week, we became aware of a concern regarding a caption reference to slavery on a map in one of our world geography programs. This program addresses slavery in the world in several lessons and meets the learning objectives of the course. However, we conducted a close review of the content and agree that our language in that caption did not adequately convey that Africans were both forced into migration and to labor against their will as slaves.

We believe we can do better. To communicate these facts more clearly, we will update this caption to describe the arrival of African slaves in the U.S. as a forced migration and emphasize that their work was done as slave labor. These changes will be reflected in the digital version of the program immediately and will be included in the program’s next print run.

Seriously guys? Being captured, sold, and shipped overseas to American Slave Markets is a "forced migration"? And somehow...the condition of slavery (where human beings are owned, bred like livestock, families split up and sold, women raped because they were property....) is not "being a slave" but rather...doing slave labor?

The Texas Board of Education, one of the biggest purchasers of textbooks, is going even further to make slavery sound quaint and charming and minimizing the KKK and Jim Crowe. Sheesh.

Whats your beef? Lefties want to silence everything else about American slavery..

Excellent point, and they aren't stopping there either.

 

[TNHarley]

Where are my reparations from the barbary slave trade?

 

[Tank]

That is good photograph for the 1450s.

In the 1450s blacks had already built houses, towns, cities and ships to sail around the world

 

[ClosedCaption]

Seriously? Well...that's what some of our nation's textbooks are saying thanks to the Regressives who are busy rewriting history.

Yup. There was no "slavery" - there were "forced migrations" and "workers" who labored under "slave conditions".


A mom challenges textbook description of slaves as ‘workers’ and wins | Get Schooled

Under the heading “Patterns of Immigration,” the world geography book states: “The Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.”

In its public statement, McGraw-Hill Education said:

This week, we became aware of a concern regarding a caption reference to slavery on a map in one of our world geography programs. This program addresses slavery in the world in several lessons and meets the learning objectives of the course. However, we conducted a close review of the content and agree that our language in that caption did not adequately convey that Africans were both forced into migration and to labor against their will as slaves.

We believe we can do better. To communicate these facts more clearly, we will update this caption to describe the arrival of African slaves in the U.S. as a forced migration and emphasize that their work was done as slave labor. These changes will be reflected in the digital version of the program immediately and will be included in the program’s next print run.

Seriously guys? Being captured, sold, and shipped overseas to American Slave Markets is a "forced migration"? And somehow...the condition of slavery (where human beings are owned, bred like livestock, families split up and sold, women raped because they were property....) is not "being a slave" but rather...doing slave labor?

The Texas Board of Education, one of the biggest purchasers of textbooks, is going even further to make slavery sound quaint and charming and minimizing the KKK and Jim Crowe. Sheesh.

"brought millions of...workers?"

 

[Mr Natural]

And I'm sure the prospective "employees" went through a rigorous interview process to be considered for those fine "positions".

 

[TNHarley]

And I'm sure the prospective "employees" went through a rigorous interview process to be considered for those fine "positions".

Na. They were just traded by their families and tribe leaders.
"What can I get for a barrel of oranges?"

 

[Tank]

If slavery really effected blacks, how come they are not hard workers today?

 

[TNHarley]

If slavery really effected blacks, how come they are not hard workers today?

They are still slaves. They are stuck in small apartments with concrete floors and a "salary"
Like Cuba.

 

[Stephanie]

Maybe you should get ahold of who it was (in this Government) that wrote Common Core and shoved it off on all the schools. that is just one example of all the nonsense in it.

 

[Coyote]

Seriously? Well...that's what some of our nation's textbooks are saying thanks to the Regressives who are busy rewriting history.

Yup. There was no "slavery" - there were "forced migrations" and "workers" who labored under "slave conditions".


A mom challenges textbook description of slaves as ‘workers’ and wins | Get Schooled

Under the heading “Patterns of Immigration,” the world geography book states: “The Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.”

In its public statement, McGraw-Hill Education said:

This week, we became aware of a concern regarding a caption reference to slavery on a map in one of our world geography programs. This program addresses slavery in the world in several lessons and meets the learning objectives of the course. However, we conducted a close review of the content and agree that our language in that caption did not adequately convey that Africans were both forced into migration and to labor against their will as slaves.

We believe we can do better. To communicate these facts more clearly, we will update this caption to describe the arrival of African slaves in the U.S. as a forced migration and emphasize that their work was done as slave labor. These changes will be reflected in the digital version of the program immediately and will be included in the program’s next print run.

Seriously guys? Being captured, sold, and shipped overseas to American Slave Markets is a "forced migration"? And somehow...the condition of slavery (where human beings are owned, bred like livestock, families split up and sold, women raped because they were property....) is not "being a slave" but rather...doing slave labor?

The Texas Board of Education, one of the biggest purchasers of textbooks, is going even further to make slavery sound quaint and charming and minimizing the KKK and Jim Crowe. Sheesh.

"brought millions of...workers?"

Yup.....bet you never knew that did you?

 

[Coyote]

Seriously? Well...that's what some of our nation's textbooks are saying thanks to the Regressives who are busy rewriting history.

Yup. There was no "slavery" - there were "forced migrations" and "workers" who labored under "slave conditions".


A mom challenges textbook description of slaves as ‘workers’ and wins | Get Schooled

Under the heading “Patterns of Immigration,” the world geography book states: “The Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.”

In its public statement, McGraw-Hill Education said:

This week, we became aware of a concern regarding a caption reference to slavery on a map in one of our world geography programs. This program addresses slavery in the world in several lessons and meets the learning objectives of the course. However, we conducted a close review of the content and agree that our language in that caption did not adequately convey that Africans were both forced into migration and to labor against their will as slaves.

We believe we can do better. To communicate these facts more clearly, we will update this caption to describe the arrival of African slaves in the U.S. as a forced migration and emphasize that their work was done as slave labor. These changes will be reflected in the digital version of the program immediately and will be included in the program’s next print run.

Seriously guys? Being captured, sold, and shipped overseas to American Slave Markets is a "forced migration"? And somehow...the condition of slavery (where human beings are owned, bred like livestock, families split up and sold, women raped because they were property....) is not "being a slave" but rather...doing slave labor?

The Texas Board of Education, one of the biggest purchasers of textbooks, is going even further to make slavery sound quaint and charming and minimizing the KKK and Jim Crowe. Sheesh.

Whats your beef? Lefties want to silence everything else about American slavery..

Such as what?

 

[ClosedCaption]

Seriously? Well...that's what some of our nation's textbooks are saying thanks to the Regressives who are busy rewriting history.

Yup. There was no "slavery" - there were "forced migrations" and "workers" who labored under "slave conditions".


A mom challenges textbook description of slaves as ‘workers’ and wins | Get Schooled

Under the heading “Patterns of Immigration,” the world geography book states: “The Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.”

In its public statement, McGraw-Hill Education said:

This week, we became aware of a concern regarding a caption reference to slavery on a map in one of our world geography programs. This program addresses slavery in the world in several lessons and meets the learning objectives of the course. However, we conducted a close review of the content and agree that our language in that caption did not adequately convey that Africans were both forced into migration and to labor against their will as slaves.

We believe we can do better. To communicate these facts more clearly, we will update this caption to describe the arrival of African slaves in the U.S. as a forced migration and emphasize that their work was done as slave labor. These changes will be reflected in the digital version of the program immediately and will be included in the program’s next print run.

Seriously guys? Being captured, sold, and shipped overseas to American Slave Markets is a "forced migration"? And somehow...the condition of slavery (where human beings are owned, bred like livestock, families split up and sold, women raped because they were property....) is not "being a slave" but rather...doing slave labor?

The Texas Board of Education, one of the biggest purchasers of textbooks, is going even further to make slavery sound quaint and charming and minimizing the KKK and Jim Crowe. Sheesh.

"brought millions of...workers?"

Yup.....bet you never knew that did you?

Like Hitler convinced gas expirimentees to volunteer?