whytheracecardisplayed1 min readWhy Schools Fail To Teach Slavery's 'Hard History'Updated: Apr 6, 2023Rated 0 out of 5 stars.No ratings yet#perspective #educationBy the time George Washington died, more than 300 enslaved people lived and toiled on his Mount Vernon farm. "Slavery is hard history," writes Hasan Kwame Jeffries in the report's preface. He is an associate professor of history at The Ohio State University and chair of the Teaching Hard History Advisory Board. "It is hard to comprehend the inhumanity that defined it. It is hard to discuss the violence that sustained it. It is hard to teach the ideology of white supremacy that justified it. And it is hard to learn about those who abided it."
#perspective #educationBy the time George Washington died, more than 300 enslaved people lived and toiled on his Mount Vernon farm. "Slavery is hard history," writes Hasan Kwame Jeffries in the report's preface. He is an associate professor of history at The Ohio State University and chair of the Teaching Hard History Advisory Board. "It is hard to comprehend the inhumanity that defined it. It is hard to discuss the violence that sustained it. It is hard to teach the ideology of white supremacy that justified it. And it is hard to learn about those who abided it."
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