Published in Jan 2017

Part 2 - Lies That American Children Are Taught About Slavery: Slavery Was Mostly About the Denial of Human Rights

These are the words contained in a textbook called United States History for Christian Schools, second ed., published by Bob Jones University Press in 1991: “A few slave holders were undeniably cruel. Examples of slaves beaten to death were not common, neither were they unknown. The majority of slave holders treated their slaves well.” As noted by historian Edward Baptist, large numbers of enslaved Black people were killed during slavery.


By Nick Chiles