What's your response to all this? Well, those standards were developed by African American history scholars, many of them Themselves were black. And The point about developing skills was those skills were developed in spite of slavery, not because of slavery. And that's what they're doing. And then they're saying they had skills post bellum, then they would use those skills as freedmen. And that's exactly what happened. (18:58–19:05)
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Asserts that the educational standards state skills were developed in spite of slavery.
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