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”.
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”.