How Do You Teach Slavery? (Joshua Johnson, The 1A)

...How did such a wide, varied and inaccurate understanding of slavery come about? Possibly because slavery isn’t taught effectively in many schools. One textbook in Texas called enslaved people “workers from Africa”. And a new study from the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Teaching Tolerance project found that students had little knowledge of slavery and its effects on society...
Interview:
https://the1a.org/shows/2018-02-19/how-do-you-teach-slavery