Steven Hale
Jul 29, 2023

I'm currently analyzing the Florida African American History curriculum, and it does mention the German Coast Uprising:

"SS.912.AA.2.2

Explain how slave codes were strengthened in response to Africans’ resistance to slavery."

However there are two ways to interpret this: (1) the curriculum is instructing students in the value / significance of various uprisings

(2) the curriculum is suggesting that the various uprisings led to a "strengthening" of the slave codes (in other words, had the enslaved Africans not resisted, the system of slavery in America would not have been so onerous), a case of blame the victim.

I'm not sure which direction was intended in the proposed Standards, but there are plenty of problems in what is clearly there.

Steven Hale
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