Ron DeSantis banned lessons on racism in public schools. ‘Freedom schools’ fill the gaps

Sara King, a 16-year-old ASALH student, said the summer classes complement what her dad, who has a master's degree in Africana studies, teaches her in the home. Some of her favorite topics she's learned so far include details on the reality of the transatlantic slave trade, as well as the promise of 40 acres and a mule that was ultimately cancelled. "There's so much that just isn't included in textbooks," King said. When teachers discuss the transatlantic slave trade in class, they sometimes don't use the word "slavery", she said: "They won't blatantly say 'the brutal history of slavery'. They'll go over 'our country participated in this', and then they'll skip over to the next part." 

Akil King, Sara's father, said that he had also benefited from the class, finding out that land along the southern coast that was supposed to be redistributed to formerly enslaved Black people after the civil war was referred to as "Sherman's reserves". "No matter how much African American history I know – having a degree in it and being a person who reads and studies – there is so much that has been withheld from us," he said. "I always learn things that I didn't know before."…

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