![]() Some of these dialogues have been wrought with controversy and conflict, like the University of Tennessee student who challenged her professor’s understanding of enslaved families.Īs a scholar of slavery at the University of Texas at Austin, I welcome the public debates and connections the American people are making with history. ![]() From the discovery of the auction of 272 enslaved people that enabled Georgetown University to remain in operation to the McGraw-Hill textbook controversy over calling slaves “workers from Africa” and the slavery memorial being built at the University of Virginia, Americans are having conversations about this difficult period in American history. Slavery has been in the news a lot lately. Some argue it was all a long time ago, but it wasn’t. They claim all Southerners owned slaves, but they didn’t. They talk about 400 years of slavery, but it wasn’t. ![]() They think the majority of African slaves came to the American colonies, but they didn’t. People think they know everything about slavery in the United States, but they don’t. ![]()
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