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Date Posted: 18:56:44 02/06/25 Thu
Author: An actual US history teacher
Subject: That's fine, but are they teaching about the skills enslaved Africans brought with them that were then learned and utilized by white plantation owners? Because otherwise, you're just teaching part of the story (see inside)
In reply to: Inside 's message, "What education is really teaching about the “skills” point" on 13:37:28 02/06/25 Thu

When Africans were first captured and brought to the Caribbean and the southern English colonies, they had many useful farming skills that the Europeans took advantage of. Since the European climate was so different, they really didn't have the farming skills for such warm climates. Africans also knew how to inoculate for smallpox, which was a technique George Washington borrowed and used on his army at Valley Forge. I could go on, but the point is that a lot of history classes ignore some very real and amazing accomplishments of African-Americans. It's really more accurate to say that enslaved people taught the Europeans and later Americans useful skills than to say that they learned these skills in slavery.

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