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At the center of Florida's slave trade was the colorful trader and slavery defender, Quaker Zephaniah Kingsley, owner of slaving vessels (boats). He treated his enslaved well, allowed them to save for and buy their freedom (at a 50% discount), and taught them crafts like carpentry, for which reason his highly-trained, well-behaved slaves sold ...
State Rep. Kimberly Daniels, who once thanked God for slavery, said she'll fight to eliminate any Black history standard that says slaves benefitted. State Rep. Kim Daniels says state must change ...
Every week lately, Florida seems to make more headlines for trying to turn public schools into a political war zone. The two latest examples: The Sentinel revealed the Florida Department of ...
7. But Black people owned slaves, too! Florida’s white history mandate: “Instruction includes the shift in attitude toward Africans as Colonial America transitioned from indentured servitude ...
Today, large concentrations of black residents can be found in northern and central Florida. Aside from blacks descended from African slaves brought to the southern U.S., there are also large numbers of Black people of Caribbean, recent African, and Afro-Latino immigrant origins, especially in the Miami/South Florida area.
The Florida House of Representatives passed the bill unanimously. Slaves worked on Florida's 1826 territorial capitol and the 1845 capitol building, as well as many major infrastructure projects in the state. [3] The planned monument would be the first monument at a U.S. state capitol to memorialize slavery. [3]
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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 ...