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Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, facing heavy criticism for defending “anti-woke” teaching in Florida, this week teed up an unusual proposal to the nation's first Black vice president: Come debate ...
The Florida Board of Education passed new standards for teaching Black history in public schools Teachers enraged that Florida’s new Black history standards say slaves could ‘benefit’ Skip ...
Republican governor’s right-wing record could pose a roadblock to effort to win moderate voters
Slavery in Florida occurred among indigenous tribes and during Spanish rule. Florida's purchase by the United States from Spain in 1819 (effective 1821) was primarily a measure to strengthen the system of slavery on Southern plantations, by denying potential runaways the formerly safe haven of Florida. Florida became a slave state, seceded, and ...
"This is one more part of a fact pattern of Ron DeSantis being mean and hateful," the former Texas representative said in an interview on "Meet the Press."
The Treatise was preceded by Kingsley's "Address to the Legislative Council of Florida [of which he was a member] on the subject of its Colored population", about 1826. In this speech, published in 2000, he calls upon the Legislative Council to accommodate the "free colored population", so that they have a "friendly feeling toward the white population".
The laws include punishment for slave owners that mistreat their slaves. In the modern era, when the abolitionist movement sought to outlaw slavery, some supporters of slavery used the laws to provide religious justification for the practice of slavery. Today, slavery is considered absolutely unacceptable in Judaism. [2]
New standards for teaching Black history in Florida’s public schools were approved Wednesday that include teaching pupils how slaves developed beneficial skills.