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How Textbooks Made America Not So Great

Some of My Best Friends Are

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How to Engage the History of Slavery

A New Jersey school put slave runaway ads on a bulletin board outside of their classroom. The assignment made national news and some parents felt that their kids were being subjected to racist images of black people. But the teachers after I sat down with them, I reviewed the material,. I actually had helped my daughter create her own runaway ad. It turns out that what they were trying to do was to show the fullness of colonial life in America.

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