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McGraw-Hill Education said it will fix Patterns of Immigration section in world history textbook that implies African slaves came to US as economic migrantsIt started with a text from a Houston-area ninth-grader to his mother.
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reading a caption in his geography textbook that described slaves as “workers”,Coby Burren sent a photo and an annoyed message to his mother. “We was genuine hard workers wasnt we,” he wrote.
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Source: theguardian.com

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