What’s the goal of teaching students that slaves may have learned skills that might have sustained them if they were lucky enough to be freed or escape? Leaving aside the stupidity of parsing a text by counting words, this evades the question of what the point is of placing this item into the curriculum at all. Cooke of the right-wing National Review, the whole package “contains the word ‘slave’ 96 times, ‘slaves’ 23 times, and ‘slavery’ 45 times! The “skills” part, he writes, is only a “tiny (and correct)” piece of the total. Its defenders say that’s just one item in a 216-page curriculum, so what’s the problem? Why, writes Charles C.
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