This is the report that Emma writes about from the NPR article. My colleague Hasan Kwame Jeffries, a historian of the civil rights movement, wrote the preface:
Teaching Hard History: American Slavery
Hasan Jeffries
Preface
“We the people would much rather have the Disney version of history, in which villains are easily spotted, su ering never lasts long, heroes invariably prevail and life always gets better. We prefer to pick and choose what aspects of the past to hold on to, gladly jettisoning that which makes us uneasy. We enjoy thinking about Thomas Je erson proclaiming, “All men are created equal.” But we are deeply troubled by the prospect of the enslaved woman Sally Hemings, who bore him six children, declar- ing, ‘Me too.'”