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Post: ‘Workers’ or slaves? Textbook maker backtracks after mother’s online complaint

A textbook publisher revised a passage describing enslaved Africans as workers after a Texas mother's online complaint drew wide attention.

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by Yanan WangMothers of teenagers are used to getting frustrating text messages, but the one that Roni Dean-Burren received from her 15-year-old son last week wasn’t about alcohol, dating or money for the movies.It was about history. 

by Yanan Wang

Mothers of teenagers are used to getting frustrating text messages, but the one that Roni Dean-Burren received from her 15-year-old son last week wasn’t about alcohol, dating or money for the movies.

It was about history.

 

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