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Florida Schools to Tell Kids Slavery Benefited Black People
(www.thedailybeast.com)
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I mean, that's a weak argument for them to make anyway. The only ones to benefit from this new skill are the owners, not the slaves. Hard to say "I learned how to harvest cotton well" is worth being torn away from your family and brutalized repeatedly because they've decided a whole group of people are just property.
I'm glad the Confederacy lost the war. But I fear that it will, after all these centuries, win the peace.
Yeah. And you can also develop skills in jail - doesn't mean we should be throwing people in jail indiscriminately and then argue it's for their own benefit so they can learn new skills.
They lost the campaign. (And that’s not nothing, ending chattel slavery in the US was a boon to humanity.) The state of the war is still in question, however.