A Nashville student-teacher was dismissed after a lesson on slavery the school says was not ‘age appropriate’ – By Christina Maxouris and Jamiel Lynch (CNN) / Feb 7 2020
(CNN)A student-teacher at a Nashville elementary school was dismissed after a Black History month lesson on slavery that prompted students to complete the phrase, “To keep their slaves subservient, plantation owners should…”
The student-teacher, who according to Metro Nashville Public Schools was African American, was giving a lesson to fourth-graders on a purported 1712 speech, in which a man identified as Willie Lynch explained to a crowd of Virginia colonists how to control enslaved people.
Scholars and historians have raised serious doubts about the speech’s authenticity, with some suggesting a person with that name did not even exist during that time frame.
The student-teacher asked the Waverly Belmont Elementary School class to read the text which in part read, “I have a fool-proof method for controlling your Black slaves… that, if installed correctly, it will control the slaves for at least 300 years,” words reportedly said by Lynch.
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