The True Nature of Slavery

Different perspectives in different textbooks

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Episode #25

Chance
re: History textbook meeting
To: Kerry sent - Gmail at 6:23 PM

Hi Kerry—

Yes….I will be there……I look forward to the conversation about textbook and experiential learning.

Your invitation came just in the nick of time. I was supposed to meet with Rich tomorrow, and I have cancelled that meeting to attend your meeting.

Rich is very understanding and willing to postpone our meeting. The best news is that he might not be able to get together with me for the next three or four weeks. His company is going public, and he will not have any time to devote to me. He was trying to talk me into being onboard when the company is added to the NY Stock Exchange because there would be an economic advantage for me, but I told him I am not ready to give up teaching….and I certainly would not quit in the middle of the school year.

See you tomorrow….

Chance

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Kerry
Re: History textbook meeting
To: Chance sent - Gmail 6:07 AM

Hi Chance—

Were you as shocked as I was yesterday to discover that different history textbooks and different editions of the same textbook teach history from different points of view?

The textbook I lent you was a twelfth edition of the book that I am using in class. The new book that the kids are using this year is the seventeenth edition.

Are you interested in getting together to discuss that section in both of our textbooks……pg. 368…What Was the True Nature of Slavery? I can’t get over all of the positive things that were said about slavery.

I am going to count the words that appeared on those two pages. I think that at least two thirds of the information was on the positive side of the argument.

I may organize the entire next meeting around the messages on pages 368 and 369.

When are you free?

Kerry