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Logically, it's hard to argue against the idea that they did learn new skills. People learn new skills everyday...that's just life.I don't think it's bad to teach that some slaves were able to find some benefit from the skills they learned in slavery.
Some slaves did learn things during slavery, skills they used to eventually free themselves.
i think the problem is nobody trusts a Ron Desantis led government to execute that in a non racist way.
Climate aside, why would anyone want to legislate against energy diversity? That just seems idiotic
Pubs are much better off without concrete plans. When they actually write one out it shows how ridiculous their ideas are
I don't think it's bad to teach that some slaves were able to find some benefit from the skills they learned in slavery.
Some slaves did learn things during slavery, skills they used to eventually free themselves.
i think the problem is nobody trusts a Ron Desantis led government to execute that in a non racist way.
And to give anyone an opportunity to present the information in such a manner should be nipped in the bud immediately.Yeah, it’s pretty close to “without the generosity of their owners the slaves wouldn’t have had a trade to fall back on once they were freed…”
I don't think it's bad to teach that some slaves were able to find some benefit from the skills they learned in slavery.
Some slaves did learn things during slavery, skills they used to eventually free themselves.
i think the problem is nobody trusts a Ron Desantis led government to execute that in a non racist way.
Logically, it's hard to argue against the idea that they did learn new skills. People learn new skills everyday...that's just life.
The issue comes from implying that had no skills to begin with and it was the wonderful reality of slavery that taught them everything they know.
Also the fact that they were then banned from implementing these skills fully in a society that accepted them fully and enabled them to profit in a capitalistic society as they would today.Logically, it's hard to argue against the idea that they did learn new skills. People learn new skills everyday...that's just life.
The issue comes from implying that had no skills to begin with and it was the wonderful reality of slavery that taught them everything they know.
This is nasty, delete this trash. Nothing good came from slavery, nothing.
Slavery is already whitewashed and toned down dramatically in school. No reason to ever try to teach anything positive coming from slavery.
Which prompted the question:The vote by the people was not without controversy. The official results only placed support for pro-secession delegates at 51 percent, and there is at least some reason to believe that pro-Union candidates won narrowly with 42,744 to 41,717, and certainly in the mountainous regions of the northern part of the state, and the Pine Barrens as well, where slave ownership was scarcer, there was overwhelming opposition to secession, and even in the plantation portions of the South, many poorer, non-slaveowning whites were not in favor, although they chose to not vote, rather than show up to the polls (voting was a public act in those days, so abstention was the better option in those regions if you didn't want to get on the wrong side of the local planter). Whether secession legitimately won narrowly, or the vote was simply doctored, the actual vote numbers were not released by Gov. Brown so as to ensure that the deep divisions wouldn't be known, and when finally published after the Convention, they were decidedly doctored to show 58 percent support.
And the follow-up answer:what would be the consequences of getting on the wrong side of the local planter for a poor white southerner?
Antebellum Southern society was not egalitarian. And while there were competing social pressures which went in both directions, especially in the country the planter aristocracy was in many ways an oligarchy. They were the law of the land there, because the local government officials were often their family, or people who owed them patronage. I wrote a little about how voting was conducted in the 19th century here, in part focusing on the antebellum period in the South.
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Crossing them could result in any number of things, from a planter selling you less seed next year, charging you a higher rate to lease an enslaved worker to bring in your harvest, or perhaps the county clerk - on subtle orders - handling some issue you needed dealt with at a glacial pace, if in your favor at all.
Logically, it's hard to argue against the idea that they did learn new skills. People learn new skills everyday...that's just life.
The issue comes from implying that had no skills to begin with and it was the wonderful reality of slavery that taught them everything they know.
It's misleading to say this without mentioning sharecropping or the punishing/killing of literate slaves, which red state school boards have removed or can't wait to remove from their textbooks.I don't think it's bad to teach that some slaves were able to find some benefit from the skills they learned in slavery.
Slaves led many rebellions even though they didn't have access to weapons or military training. Where would they have learned to conduct warfare if it weren't for captured soldiers in Africa who ended up in the Americas?Some slaves did learn things during slavery, skills they used to eventually free themselves.
That's exactly what it is.They are trying to put some sort of positive spin on horrific actions of their ancestors
It's misleading to say this without mentioning sharecropping or the punishing/killing of literate slaves, which red state school boards have removed or can't wait to remove from their textbooks.
It's also reinforces the assumption that those who were brought here didn't have any skills, which is inaccurate. Not to mention, it isn't an assumption that is challenged in the current curriculum. How many K-12 kids know that an enslaved person's existing skill set was an important aspect of their value when they came off the boats?
Slaves led many rebellions even though they didn't have access to weapons or military training. Where would they have learned to conduct warfare if it weren't for captured soldiers in Africa who ended up in the Americas?
And yo gets mad when you call him oneDisgusting. Contrarianism has no limit.
And yo gets mad when you call him one