Montgomery, "The Leading Facts of American His- tory," p. Yet they now sat in the state legislatures and made the laws."(D. They had been slaves all their lives, and were so ignorant they did not even know the letters of the alphabet. "The Negroes got control of these states. "Although the Negroes were now free, they were also ignorant and unfit to govern themselves."(Everett Barnes, "American History for Grammar Grades," p. "All were ignorant of public business."(Woodburn and Moran, "Elementary American History and Government," p. What are American children taught today about Reconstruction? Helen Boardman has made a study of current textbooks and notes these three dominant theses: The North was ashamed because it had to call in the black men to save the Union, abolish slavery and establish democracy. The South was ashamed because it fought to perpetuate human slavery. How the facts of American history have in the last half century been falsified because the nation was ashamed.
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