Florida Teaches "Natural Increase" Instead of Forced Breeding and Rape
The Whitewash of History in Florida Schools
The teaching of Black History in Florida is in the news again for all the wrong reasons. Florida has approved its 2023 State Standards for Social Studies, which includes African American History. Others have correctly called Florida out for its insistence that “some Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills” and requiring instruction about acts of violence committed by Black people while they were being attacked by whites, like during the Ocoee Massacre and Rosewood Massacre that they also refer to as riots.
As bad as those are, the worst thing Florida teaches, in my opinion, is that the undeniable increase in the number of enslaved people in America was due to “natural reproduction” and the inability to curtail the smuggling of enslaved Africans despite their best efforts.
The 216-page document defining the standards for instruction contains multiple sections with benchmark clarifications to make clear what is to be…
