What Would Have Happened to African Slaves in America and their Descendants if the Transatlantic Slave Trade Had Not Existed?

An alternative history examination of the political fight over the new FL teaching guidelines on slavery

[Frederick Goodall, Arab Slave Traders, 1861]

Kamala Harris and Ron DeSantis recently waged something of a partisan skirmish over the new standards Florida’s Department of Education has provided to the state’s educators on how to teach the history of slavery.

Harris expressed outrage that “middle school students in Florida [are being] told that enslaved p…