Educators Shed Light on Northern Slavery - Yahoo! News
Educators Shed Light on Northern Slavery - Yahoo! News: "OYSTER BAY, N.Y. - A group of mostly white seventh and eighth graders sleepily sauntered into their school library, soon to get a surprise awakening about a part of their town's history they never knew existed.
'Did anybody in this room know there were 60 enslaved Africans, people, human beings, buried a mile from here?' Alan Singer, a professor at Hofstra University, asked them. 'Those people have been erased from history. It is as if they never existed.'
Singer and Mary Carter, a retired middle school social studies teacher, were in Oyster Bay recently to speak to the kids — part of a quest to develop a public school curriculum guide focusing on slavery's impact in the northern U.S., specifically New York."
'Did anybody in this room know there were 60 enslaved Africans, people, human beings, buried a mile from here?' Alan Singer, a professor at Hofstra University, asked them. 'Those people have been erased from history. It is as if they never existed.'
Singer and Mary Carter, a retired middle school social studies teacher, were in Oyster Bay recently to speak to the kids — part of a quest to develop a public school curriculum guide focusing on slavery's impact in the northern U.S., specifically New York."
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