tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post3529263101673737961..comments2024-03-28T02:21:17.452-07:00Comments on Seattle Schools Community Forum: It's 2015 and Yet American Textbook Writers Apparently STILL Don't Get ItMelissa Westbrookhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-88346711758106651342015-10-06T15:04:50.718-07:002015-10-06T15:04:50.718-07:00Keeping up with your teens:
The American Slave Co...Keeping up with your teens:<br /><br />The American Slave Coast: A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry (non-fiction - #1 best seller)<br />Chicago Review Press, October 1, 2015<br />by Ned Sublette, Constance Sublette<br /><br />Authors Ned and Constance Sublette tell the brutal story of how the slavery industry made the reproductive labor of the people it referred to as “breeding women” essential to the young country’s expansion. Captive African Americans in the slave nation were not only laborers, but merchandise and collateral all at once. In a land without silver, gold, or trustworthy paper money, their children and their children’s children into perpetuity were used as human savings accounts that functioned as the basis of money and credit in a market premised on the continual expansion of slavery. Slaveowners collected interest in the form of newborns, who had a cash value at birth and whose mothers had no legal right to say no to forced mating. <br /><br />review:<br />http://www.alternet.org/books/new-book-america-was-built-slavery-and-it-was-much-worse-you-might-imagine<br /><br />-McClureWatcherAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-47622131221408630272015-10-06T12:36:43.955-07:002015-10-06T12:36:43.955-07:00Texas was, in the past, the bellwether of the text...Texas was, in the past, the bellwether of the textbook industry and many textbooks were published to be acceptable to Texas school districts first. I don't know if this still stands, but if so, we should be reviewing history texts with a critical eye.Andrea Leigh Ptakhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07804830480381262696noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-90151920926258760372015-10-06T08:49:28.832-07:002015-10-06T08:49:28.832-07:00The textbook publishers do get it, but the it they...The textbook publishers do get it, but the it they get is what it takes to sell a textbook to a state that doesn't want its students to find out the the United States ever did anything wrong.<br /><br />If more enlightened big states, say California and New York, got together and would not recommend books to their school districts that presented false history, the publishers would respond.<br />Patrickhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16260807460417787614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-39506404242775479782015-10-06T08:18:19.964-07:002015-10-06T08:18:19.964-07:00Historian, I'm not rising to your bait.Historian, I'm not rising to your bait. Melissa Westbrookhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17179994245880629080noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-22706940154515777762015-10-05T20:41:53.404-07:002015-10-05T20:41:53.404-07:00Unbelievable!
WowUnbelievable! <br />WowAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-1410503349529380722015-10-05T20:08:27.962-07:002015-10-05T20:08:27.962-07:00I don't mind that the slaves in our history ar...I don't mind that the slaves in our history are finally being more highly regarded as "workers" because the truth is; they worked and suffered MUCH harder than any white man or woman in those days, with zero days off and from sunrise to sunset. It is beyond imagination the unspeakable horrors and abuses that most of the slaves suffered and it is important that all High School text books accurately and completely portray the reality. <br /><br />However, when they are solely referred to as "slaves" and so little acknowledgement of how their enslavement was so very much more than just that, and that they literally were the very backbone of every plantation, it seems that history books so often diminish how important they actually were and I have seen several that referenced the slaves as the "white man's burden" that they were unable to sell nor legally get rid of the slaves that were not productive and were a "drain" to the resources of the Plantation. This is sickening that these kinds of texts that sympathize with the slave-owners have circulated in our schools for many decades. <br /><br />I wish I could see the rest of the McGraw-Hill history book to get the context and all aspects of their account of African American slaves in our history. If this single page is a testimonial part of "sugar-coating" the horrors of slavery throughout the text then it falls on ALL of us to take a stand against their censorship and manipulation of the American Education System. But I cannot see that single page as anything other than the promotion in rank and title that the slaves actually deserved for the extraordinary and heroic sacrifices of every single back breaking day of their lives from birth to death. <br />I only hope that the rest of the Textbook actually supports this as well as being an accurate account of Slavery in the southern United States. <br /><br />I am extremely interested in finding out more. Please comment or argue your views and insights. <br /><br />-HistorianAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28765366.post-26653420023001478882015-10-05T17:27:34.439-07:002015-10-05T17:27:34.439-07:00Oh, they get it$! To balance it all, I gave "...Oh, they get it$! To balance it all, I gave "Between the World and Me" by Ta-Nehisi Coates to my teens. Of course they already beat me to it as they follow tweets by the latest and greatest make you squirm newsmakers. Such is this gen. Can't get ahead of them much. <br /><br />parentAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com