Old history book taught students that slaves had it great until ‘Radicals’ ruined everything.

[Quixote1818]

Slaves were the earliest form of social security and everybody loves social security. It was a dream! The slaves got top-knotch medical treatment, so, you know, they could continue working long, grueling hours doing hard labor for no money.






Much more at the link: http://www.ifyouonlynews.com/weird-news/1970s-alabama-history-book-reveals-why-southerners-are-confused-about-the-civil-war-period-images/

[Scootaloo]

1. I remember that book. Yes, that was my Alabama History text. In 1996.

They start early hammering ignorance into the minds of young people.

[Quixote1818]

2. Shows you how important TV series like Roots were

and movies like 12 Years as a Slave. Perhaps Ken Burn's programs also do some good. Hopefully at least a handful of brainwashed folks see the real history and begin to question things a bit.

[pnwmom]

4. In 1996??? Wow. n/t

[Scootaloo]

5. Yup. Or if not THAT EXACT Alabama History book, one very like it

- The creek deserved to be expunged from Alabama
- Arabs and the North are responsible for the slave trade
- Slavery is bad but only in an intellectual way. They were happy and well-treated, always singing!
- The Woah uv Nawthun Awgresshun was a travesty on the level of the holocaust, and General Sherman was a flesh-eating monster
- Crazy evil Carpetbagger Republicans and their Scalliwag allies (these were key glossary terms!) tricked black people into wanting political representation!
- Reconstruction failed because black people were terrible at governing and so Alabama had to be "saved" by hte Old Guard.
- the Klan was there to protect southern women from those yankee carpetbaggers.
- Sharecropping was perfectly fair and mostly-white.
- The south was getting along fine until radical agitators started stirring things up again!

And you're a kid, in school reading this. half the time the eacher going over hte lessons is a black person (Mine was.) so you go home at the end of the day and you're just like "well, i guess that's how it was."

[pnwmom]

6. Thanks. I didn't realize that this kind of "education" had persisted so long.

And if they were reading this in 1996, they're probably reading something similar today.

[smiley]

3. Are you sure...

that's not the new history text books in Texas?

[Person 2713]

7. Damn those socialist slave owners. "Slaves were without want" huh?

This book was from the '1970s Someone posted still used in 1990s
Teach your children well
Or someone else will

Yeah they got medical care because the owners valued their property

[LuvNewcastle]

8. I would have to write a long screed

to explain my disgust with that textbook. If I had kids in that class, I would teach them the truth and when they failed the test, I would go to the school board if I had to in order to prove how wrong that book was. There are some things worth fighting for, and teaching kids erroneous history intentionally should be fought at every turn. A lot of kids will grow up believing that shit, and that is very dangerous to democracy.