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For another year, Florida public school students will continue to learn that Black Americans in some way benefited from slavery.. On Wednesday, the Florida Board of Education approved the state's ...
Rep. Ayanna Pressley will reintroduce H.R. 40, federal legislation to study reparations for slavery, on Wednesday as the Trump administration leads a wide-scale rollback of diversity, equity and ...
The Florida Board of Education passed new standards for teaching Black history in public schools Teachers enraged that Florida’s new Black history standards say slaves could ‘benefit’ Skip ...
At the center of Florida's slave trade was the colorful trader and slavery defender, Quaker Zephaniah Kingsley, owner of slaving vessels (boats). He treated his enslaved well, allowed them to save for and buy their freedom (at a 50% discount), and taught them crafts like carpentry, for which reason his highly-trained, well-behaved slaves sold ...
Historic sources show several of the 16 individuals cited by the Florida Department of Education were never even slaves.
The Florida State Board of Education issued new standards that included teaching middle school students that enslaved Black people benefited The post Harris delivers fiery speech in Florida after ...
Cornish was born into slavery in Maryland in 1793. [1] In 1839, his enslaver hired him out to a railroad-building project in Port Leon, Florida.The position allowed Cornish to earn money for himself, and after nine years of work at $600 a year, he was able to purchase his freedom and that of his wife Lillah. [1]
This is a list of American slave traders working in Georgia and Florida from 1776 until 1865. Note 1: The importation of slaves from overseas was prohibited by the Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War but resumed locally afterwards, including through the port of Savannah, Georgia (until 1798). [ 1 ]