27 - Teaching History to Our Children: Did Black Slaves Benefit from Being Enslaved?

Under Ron DeSantis’ “leadership," the Florida’s Department of Education just mandated that within the states middle school history curriculum, educators must teach “slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.” Yes, the benefits of slavery. Turns out that many of the examples provided by the DOE were not slaves in the first place. Let’s talk about it! Please join us on other platforms: Website: https://DrDavidMD.com/ YT: https://www.youtube.com/c/DrDavidMD FB: https://www.facebook.com/PagingDrDavidMD IG: https://www.instagram.com/pagingdrdavidmd/ LI: https://www.linkedin.com/company/drdavidmd/ TW: https://twitter.com/PagingDrDavidMD Become a patron to access exclusive content. Click below: https://www.patreon.com/DrDavidMD ---- Episode Sources: https://www.tampabay.com/news/education/2023/07/21/benefited-slavery-critics-say-some-states-examples-were-never-even-slaves/ https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2023/07/21/florida-history-lesson-slavery-an-unpaid-internship-editorial/ https://www.politico.com/newsletters/playbook/2023/07/22/harris-slams-desantis-over-slavery-curriculum-00107701 https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/20/ron-desantis-florida-racial-issues-830726 https://www.thedailybeast.com/ron-desantis-book-its-unfair-to-blame-founding-fathers-for-allowing-slavery https://www.lewislatimerhouse.org/about