[DiogenesLamp]

Saw this today on Instapundit.

DISPATCHES FROM THE EDUCATION APOCALYPSE: “I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors. I gave them a ten-question American history test… just to see where they are. The vast majority of my students – I’m talking nine out of ten, in every single class, for seven consecutive years – they have no idea that slavery existed anywhere in the world before the United States. Moses, Pharaoh, they know none of it. They’re 100% convinced that slavery is a uniquely American invention… How do you give an adequate view of history and culture to kids when that’s what they think of their own country – that America invented slavery? That’s all they know.”

https://pjmedia.com/instapundit/239847/#respond

What did anyone expect when such propaganda is constantly spouted by Union Apologists?

[x]

No. It's because they don't know anything about the Bible or about ancient history or the rest of the world.

"Union apologists" don't have anything to do with it, and in fact today's racial rhetoric really doesn't have much to do with Abraham Lincoln or the Civil War.

However much you guys may cheer on Lee or Jackson or Davis, there isn't much enthusiasm for Lincoln or Grant or Sherman in Black Lives Matter (whatever that is) or on college campuses.

But heaven help us if you guys get your own way. You'd have kids thinking the tariff was worse than slavery and Lincoln the worst and only racist president.

[rustbucket]

I wonder if Common Core had a hand in making that impression on students.

Here is a link to lesson plans consistent with Common Core [Slavery in America].

Apparently, they do talk about the beginnings of slavery. Hopefully, they do give a good introduction to slavery in World History in the first unit, but maybe I'm just naive. What is clear though is that the most emphasis of this course is placed on what happened in America. Well, it is entitled Slavery in America. If this course is all the students get exposed to about slavery before hitting junior and senior history classes, it might not be surprising that they got the idea that slavery was only or mainly here in America. I'm glad some high school teachers correct that impression.

[BroJoeK]

DiogenesLamp: "What did anyone expect when such propaganda is constantly spouted by Union Apologists?"

But no "Union Apologist" on Free Republic ever knowingly "spouts" such a lie.
We are only here to correct the constant stream of lies coming from pro-Confederates, we knowingly create none of our own, certainly nothing as ridiculous as the example you reported.