{"id":35404,"date":"2016-08-05T01:00:49","date_gmt":"2016-08-05T05:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=35404"},"modified":"2016-07-27T10:10:05","modified_gmt":"2016-07-27T14:10:05","slug":"qotd-slavery-as-an-american-invention","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2016\/08\/05\/qotd-slavery-as-an-american-invention\/","title":{"rendered":"QotD: Slavery as an American invention"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors. I gave them a ten-question American history test\u2026 just to see where they are. The vast majority of my students &#8211; I\u2019m talking nine out of ten, in every single class, for seven consecutive years \u2013 they have no idea that slavery existed anywhere in the world before the United States. Moses, Pharaoh, they know none of it. They\u2019re 100% convinced that slavery is a uniquely American invention\u2026 How do you give an adequate view of history and culture to kids when that\u2019s what they think of their own country \u2013 that America invented slavery? That\u2019s all they know.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Duke Pesta, in conversation with Stefan Molyneux, transcribed by <a href=\"http:\/\/davidthompson.typepad.com\/davidthompson\/2016\/07\/elsewhere-208.html\" target=\"_blank\">David Thompson<\/a>, 2016-07-27. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I started giving quizzes to my juniors and seniors. I gave them a ten-question American history test\u2026 just to see where they are. The vast majority of my students &#8211; I\u2019m talking nine out of ten, in every single class, for seven consecutive years \u2013 they have no idea that slavery existed anywhere in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,7,41,13],"tags":[605,764],"class_list":["post-35404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-history","category-quotations","category-usa","tag-slavery","tag-university"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-9d2","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35404"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35405,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35404\/revisions\/35405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}