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'Do not, for the love of God, tell kids that slavery was beneficial' (www.rawstory.com)

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[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Literally the first sentence of the article. Emphasis added.

Students at Florida public schools will now learn that Black people benefitted from slavery because it taught them skills.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Ironically, one of the (many) reasons this is total bullshit is that not all slaves were imported for unskilled physical labor. In the Carolinas, when landowners began growing rice they paid a premium for female slaves from west Africa who had experience with rice cultivation because they had no idea how to do it themselves. So it would be accurate to say that white people benefited from slavery because it taught them skills.