Because that is literally how it is taught in public schools. You can look at your states curriculum online. I’ve taught both world history and US history at the high school level.
World history: not a single mention of slavery. Even the “slaves built the pyramids” thing is debunked.
US history: the entire first half of the school year is centered on the issue of slavery (with the occasional “white man bad to peaceful native Americans and women” thrown in). The entire second half of the school year is basically, “the civil war may have ended slavery, but not really. Oh, and Republicans = Great Depression and Nixon aka corruption. Democrats = Wilson and FDR aka the saviors of all mankind.”
Yep. My first lesson on slavery was the “Triangular Trade.” There was never any mention of the slaves of ancient times, the slaves of the Middle East, or anyone else.
Yup. The old “slave trade triangle” has been used for decades as a mnemonic device to get kids to memorize the “fact” that slave trading occurred exclusively between Europe, the Americas, and Africa. They try to get you to teach it like it was the only thing happening in the world at that time. Like white people were so bad that they stopped everything they were doing to go down to Africa and snatch up as many black people as they could so that they could force them to start building the “new world”.
A lot of dumbasses think america invented slavery.
Because that is literally how it is taught in public schools. You can look at your states curriculum online. I’ve taught both world history and US history at the high school level.
World history: not a single mention of slavery. Even the “slaves built the pyramids” thing is debunked.
US history: the entire first half of the school year is centered on the issue of slavery (with the occasional “white man bad to peaceful native Americans and women” thrown in). The entire second half of the school year is basically, “the civil war may have ended slavery, but not really. Oh, and Republicans = Great Depression and Nixon aka corruption. Democrats = Wilson and FDR aka the saviors of all mankind.”
Yep. My first lesson on slavery was the “Triangular Trade.” There was never any mention of the slaves of ancient times, the slaves of the Middle East, or anyone else.
Slavery was all American.
Yup. The old “slave trade triangle” has been used for decades as a mnemonic device to get kids to memorize the “fact” that slave trading occurred exclusively between Europe, the Americas, and Africa. They try to get you to teach it like it was the only thing happening in the world at that time. Like white people were so bad that they stopped everything they were doing to go down to Africa and snatch up as many black people as they could so that they could force them to start building the “new world”.
Yup... they were totally workers... workers that were forced to work under punishment of death and paid in food.
You forgot the 6 page paper about the Muslim American who convinced white people to start the civil war.