Texas Student Finds Errors In History Textbook Saying Slaves Were Immigrant Workers.

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http://www.theguardian.com/education/2015/oct/05/mcgraw-hill-textbook-slaves-workers-texas

The offending passage was in pages titled Patterns of Immigration in McGraw-Hill Education’s World Geography book. A colourful map of the US was adorned with a speech bubble which said: “The Atlantic Slave Trade between the 1500s and 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.”

Dean-Burren, and thousands of others who reacted on social media, objected to a choice of words which seems to imply that slaves were economic migrants.

“Immigrants. Yeah, that word matters – immigrants,” she said. “So it is now considered immigration.”


In April 1865, after the Civil War, 30% of the population of Texas were slaves being paid no wages and having no freedom of naturalization. Today most of the working population of Texas receives a non living wage for their work.