Texas publisher apologizes for 'slaves'
The largest US publisher, McGraw-Hill Education, had to apologize for the oversight in the geography textbooks.
In the publisher's manuals, widely used in the state of Texas, slaves brought to America are called “laborers.”
At the same time, as noted by AP agency, such a free definition of black slaves did not attract the attention of numerous commissions that review and approve textbooks in Texas. The mother of an 15-year-old student from Houston, Roni Dean-Burren, who raised her anger in social networks, raised the alarm.
The offending geography textbook is used in about a quarter of Texas' 1200 school districts, according to authorities. The AP was unable to obtain an answer from the publisher about how many U.S. schools use the manual.
Meanwhile, in a letter to employees, the publisher's chief executive, David Levin, said he deeply regrets the words used to describe the story of the Atlantic slave trade. “Despite the fact that the book was reviewed by many people both inside and outside the publishing house, no one sounded the alarm,” the letter notes. At the same time, the director admits that an unacceptable mistake occurred.
The caption that infuriated the student's parent accompanies a map of the United States in the immigration section. The text reads: “The Atlantic Slave Trade, from the 1500s to the 1800s, brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.”
Dean-Burren, a former English teacher who is now a PhD candidate at the University of Houston, read this text after her son pointed to him.
The woman stressed that she was most outraged by the fact that the editors of the Texas Department of Education did not pay attention to the signature. Most members of this body hold rather conservative views and approve curricula in which, for example, doubts are expressed in the theory of evolution. Of the fifteen councilors, only one is black.
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