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The History of Slavery in American Schools
I think the debate has suffered from a kind of parochialism in the sense that it's focused on the United States, rather than on the history of slavery. Slavery is something that goes back a very long time in human history. And so to argue, as the 1619 project did, that the defining feature of the United States was slavery, was wildly misleading. There is an argument for trying to teach this topic globally, not only in American terms but even more so in global terms.
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