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A Black actor in 1974 impersonating an enslaved man in Colonial Williamsburg in Virginia. George Bryant/Toronto Star via Getty Images

Why separating fact from fiction is critical in teaching US slavery

Eric Gable, University of Mary Washington and Richard Handler, University of Virginia

Though it is a fact that some enslaved people learned valuable skills, it’s a myth that they had the same path of upward mobility that white laborers enjoyed.

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