This week, we became aware of a concern regarding a caption reference to slavery on a map in one of our world geography programs. This program addresses slavery in the world in several lessons and meets the learning objectives of the course. However, we conducted a close review of the content and agree that our language in that caption did not adequately convey that Africans were both forced into migration and to labor against their will as slaves.
We believe we can do better. To communicate these facts more clearly, we will update this caption to describe the arrival of African slaves in the U.S. as a forced migration and emphasize that their work was done as slave labor. These changes will be reflected in the digital version of the program immediately and will be included in the program’s next print run.
McGraw-Hill Education is committed to developing the highest quality educational materials and upholding the academic integrity of our products. We value the insight the public brings to discussions of our content.
Jacqueline Phares Lamphire
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AALALSODID READ THAT AFRICAN TRIBES often captured tube slaves to send here for money...is that untrue?
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AALALSODID READ THAT AFRICAN TRIBES often captured tube slaves to send here for money...is that untrue?
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Glenn Wilson
I'll even go this far, regardless of who started it, who participated in it and how many ally came over the Africans who were brought over to the Western Hemisphere were not immigrant workers. They were slaves.
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Donald Christie Jr
McGraw-Hill Education, what do you MEAN, "This week, we became aware..."?!! THIS week?! THIS week?! Were your proof-readers and content-ckecker
One can only conclude that you KNOWINGLY let the Texas School Board/Board of Regents overseers dictate their version of "history" in order for you to make your profit.
For shame! For shame! (I won't ask, "Have you no shame?" for it is obvious that you accepted your "thirty coins of silver" to agree to go to print with the distorted, sugar-coated view of what was our "original sin.")
"We believe we can do better," you write. You surely COULD have done "better," but your Monday-morning apologia, with its promise to revise digital copies and update the next print run falls far short of appropriate redress.
All students should have their "revisionist" copies replaced, FREE. (Let them keep the "old" copies as souvenirs, or to sell on eBay as examples of political correctness a la Tejas.) What a great teaching opportunity you have inadvertently provided, as teachers and enlightened parents discuss with their students the "what" and "why" of the corrections. Finally, let the School Board and Regents ponder a bit about what FOOLS they make of themselves in their botched attempt to paper over the dark side of our history. Is it any wonder that most of the rest of us view those folks as bigoted, ignorant rubes?!
That's about as charitable a comment as I can make about the outcome of what you allowed to happen.
One can only conclude that you KNOWINGLY let the Texas School Board/Board of Regents overseers dictate their version of "history" in order for you to make your profit.
For shame! For shame! (I won't ask, "Have you no shame?" for it is obvious that you accepted your "thirty coins of silver" to agree to go to print with the distorted, sugar-coated view of what was our "original sin.")
"We believe we can do better," you write. You surely COULD have done "better," but your Monday-morning apologia, with its promise to revise digital copies and update the next print run falls far short of appropriate redress.
All students should have their "revisionist" copies replaced, FREE. (Let them keep the "old" copies as souvenirs, or to sell on eBay as examples of political correctness a la Tejas.) What a great teaching opportunity you have inadvertently provided, as teachers and enlightened parents discuss with their students the "what" and "why" of the corrections. Finally, let the School Board and Regents ponder a bit about what FOOLS they make of themselves in their botched attempt to paper over the dark side of our history. Is it any wonder that most of the rest of us view those folks as bigoted, ignorant rubes?!
That's about as charitable a comment as I can make about the outcome of what you allowed to happen.
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Frank Rawland
Hey! McGraw-Hill!
The institution that required the "forced migration" of Africans to North America (and the Caribbean and Brazil) in order to "labor against their will" was SLAVERY! S-L-A-V-E-R-Y
The institution that required the "forced migration" of Africans to North America (and the Caribbean and Brazil) in order to "labor against their will" was SLAVERY! S-L-A-V-E-R-Y
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Quanteus Johnson
This was done intentionally, this is a great example of how their trying to manipulate the next generation by making slavery appear as if it wasn't "as horrific" as it actually was. Slave- a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. I know for sure that the millions of slaves that were taken, sold, given away would have loved to STAY WHERE THEY WERE TO BEGIN WITH! It's crazy to think that they would think this is okay. This is part of what's wrong with America, not taking ownership of mistakes that were made for DECADES!!!
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Tray Bar
McGraw-Hill you are lying again. The Trans Atlantic Slave Trade WAS NOT forced migration, it was the capture and kidnapping of FREE AFRICAN PEOPLE who were chained and stacked under the most inhumane conditions in the bowels of ships, where they were sold as property to labor on plantation fields for CENTURIES. Include that in your next print run.
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Sheri Wheatley
Forced migration? Weren't they kidnapped? Why are you trying to dress it up with a fancy bow, it's history, it isn't pretty, it isn't neat, but in order to learn from it the truth needs to be taught. They were taken and sold as slaves.
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Tajh Danielle Sutton
Absolutely disgusting and your 'response' is almost as embarrassing as the sordid act itself. Referring to African slaves as 'workers' and referencing slavery in your 'apology' as 'forced migration' and 'unpaid labor' does not speak to the rape, castration, flogging, lynching, abduction, mutilation, degradation, destruction of heritage, communities, families and an entire diaspora still reeling from the modern day effects of slavery which led to jim crow which led to the new Jim Crow. I know I cannot expect better so I will not demand that you do better. I'm just glad people are willing to call you and your joke of a publication out. Shameful. Absolutely shameful. Rewriting history and wondering why modern society is falling apart. We aren't being properly exposed to the lessons of the past and are therefore doomed to repeat them and all those traditionally marginalized will continue to fall by the wayside. My blood is BOILING. #McGrawHill #RewritingHistor
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Danielle Scott Banks
They weren't used as slave labor they were chattel slaves. Property. Humans who were considered no better than livestock. Tell that fact. If people knew the severity of slavery, maybe they'd begin to understand racism is a system, not a feeling.
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Earl Grey Summers
I still fail to see why the truth is so offensive to some folks. ...Not really, I'm just being facetious. Ladies and gentlemen, slavery happened. It was a horrible atrocity engineered according to greed and implemented according to supremacist ideology. Unless you condone slavery or sympathize with the slave traders and slave owners, it should be no skin off your backs to acknowledge the reality of what occurred in America during that time period. If it offends you, ask yourself why--- if you truly stand on the side that believes African slavery in America was despicable, ask yourself what it is that causes you to support the dilution of its mentioning in the curriculum.
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Brian Hamilton
This is yet another attempt by a textbook publisher to obfuscate the harshness of reality, or at worst it is institutionaliz
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Anna Kane
I really don't appreciate seeing white supremacists commenting here trying to use my Irish ancestor's experience as some kind of justification for the treatment of slaves brought from Africa, or implying that it somehow negates or nulls the Black Man's experience because "THERE WERE SOME WHITE SLAVES, TOO!" NO.
If you're using the systematic dehumanization of Irish immigrants at the hands of the British as a way to downplay what happened to Africans brought over as slaves, then it's obvious you have no genuine sympathy for, nor connection to, those Irishmen: you just want to bastardize their experience to further your hate-fueled agenda.
One group's systematic persecution & suffering NEVER justifies another's! Our country's black men and women have every right to make sure their ancestor's stories are told, and that the stories being told are correct. It is our duty to share the true experiences of our ancestors, not in a game of "us vs the rest," but to remind us of what we came from to help assure it never happens again.
Empathize. Sympathize. Humanize.
If you're using the systematic dehumanization of Irish immigrants at the hands of the British as a way to downplay what happened to Africans brought over as slaves, then it's obvious you have no genuine sympathy for, nor connection to, those Irishmen: you just want to bastardize their experience to further your hate-fueled agenda.
One group's systematic persecution & suffering NEVER justifies another's! Our country's black men and women have every right to make sure their ancestor's stories are told, and that the stories being told are correct. It is our duty to share the true experiences of our ancestors, not in a game of "us vs the rest," but to remind us of what we came from to help assure it never happens again.
Empathize. Sympathize. Humanize.
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Derick Coley
McGraw Hill; your textbooks are much too important in educating America for a misrepresentati
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Jordan Goldman
it's not a forced migration. Africans were kidnapped and forced into slavery. Why does the "correction" still sugarcoat it?
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Bess Hubbard
Not good enough. You knew what you were doing.
Slavery in America was not just "forced migration". It was the greatest institutionaliz
Slavery is America's holocaust.
And there is no comparison between this holocaust and "immigration".
You have to work very hard to get the story of slavery this wrong. There is no shortage of scholars, published writings and information that set the record straight.
Please take your job of educating young minds more seriously in the future. Even better, recall all those books and publish reprints, free of charge -- immediately. The taxpayers who footed your bill deserve better than that.
Slavery in America was not just "forced migration". It was the greatest institutionaliz
Slavery is America's holocaust.
And there is no comparison between this holocaust and "immigration".
You have to work very hard to get the story of slavery this wrong. There is no shortage of scholars, published writings and information that set the record straight.
Please take your job of educating young minds more seriously in the future. Even better, recall all those books and publish reprints, free of charge -- immediately. The taxpayers who footed your bill deserve better than that.
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Jarita Hagans
Not good enough, McGraw-Hill Education. You can't rewrite history. My ancestors did not "migrate". They were kidnapped and forced into slavery. Anything less than that is incorrect and unacceptable.
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Michael Barnes
What kind of bullsh*t is this?!? Trying to sugar coat history, so they don't come out looking quite so bad. "We tried to help you people. We gave you jobs, clothes, a place to stay, etc." GTFOH They envied the [bodies] of black men, so they did everything in their power to mentally, spiritually, and many times physically castrate the black man. And as you can see from the many different shades of "black" folks we have today, they just couldn't stay away from black women & little girls, relentlessly raping them at their own leisure (which is why it's a rarity to find a black person who can actually trace their ancestory beyond the past few centuries). But, let's not kid ourselves. As long as the same people continue to write the history books, the history of black Americans will continue to be "edited". #TRUTH #WakeUpNOW
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Nikkole Salter
FORCED MIGRATION is an INAPPROPRIATE description for the KIDNAP, GENERATIONAL ENSLAVEMENT and FORCED labor of MILLIONS... MILLIONS whose families were DECIMATED, whose cultures were ANNIHILATED, whose identities were SQUASHED into oblivion. Please, just tell the truth. For the sake of our MORAL souls, do not continue to distort and commit crime after crime. What is wrong with you people? TELL THE TRUTH. Africans were kidnaped, enslaved and brutally forced to work against their will for their entire lives, and their children were forced to do the same despite their efforts to free themselves from the beginning of colonial America until they were freed by the 13th amendment AFTER the Civil War. Their labor served as the BASIS of American agricultural AND industrial economy and as the BASIS of the development of American infrastructure in the north and south alike. That's the caption. The wealth that was produced on the backs of Africans brutally bound in CHATTEL SLAVERY was the reason the American Dream became a dream for millions of Europeans who came with hopes that they could have better, more stable, more free, more profitable lives at their expense. Geez. Am I the only person who knows this story? TELL THE TRUTH!
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Flower Child Veggiegirl
There's no way McGraw Hill would dream of renaming the Jewish Holocaust as non-voluntary participantion in fasting during times of high exercise, or non-voluntary participants in science and social experiments.
Migration implies intent, will. My recent ancestors willingly migrated north. My distant ancestors were stolen, forced, beaten, raped, abused, destroyed, broken, dehumanized...
You all should be ashamed of this grossly, ridiculously inaccurate depiction of the slave trade and enslavement of Africans in the Americas. There is absolutely no excuse - NO EXCUSE - for this clearly intentional rewriting and "prettying up" of the African Holocaust. BIG. FAT. FAIL.
Migration implies intent, will. My recent ancestors willingly migrated north. My distant ancestors were stolen, forced, beaten, raped, abused, destroyed, broken, dehumanized...
You all should be ashamed of this grossly, ridiculously inaccurate depiction of the slave trade and enslavement of Africans in the Americas. There is absolutely no excuse - NO EXCUSE - for this clearly intentional rewriting and "prettying up" of the African Holocaust. BIG. FAT. FAIL.
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Chantilly CV
This is unacceptable. We would not accept such irresponsible depictions of holocaust and we should also not accept erasures of slavery.
Let history tell itself without bias. If you really want to do something to fix this issue, you'll put as many women and people of color on your review boards as you have white men.
Bias is present in everyone, but allowing it to color our telling of history because the writer's and reviewers of historic text are not from diverse backgrounds is horrid.
You have failed.
Allow the oppressed to also contribute to the writing of our history.
Let history tell itself without bias. If you really want to do something to fix this issue, you'll put as many women and people of color on your review boards as you have white men.
Bias is present in everyone, but allowing it to color our telling of history because the writer's and reviewers of historic text are not from diverse backgrounds is horrid.
You have failed.
Allow the oppressed to also contribute to the writing of our history.
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Tonya Alston
You are STILL wrong. You nred to recall every single copy of those books.
It wasn't "forced migration" it was kidnapping. Africans were kidnapped, stripped of their families, culture and language, and were sold to the highest bidders...like cattle. They BECAME enslaved when they were kidnapped by Europeans. They sold, belittled, raped, starved, beaten and tortured. They nursed and raised your babies while having to neglect their own (who were also sold)...for centuries. Every effort was made to dehumanize them but they persevered.
McGraw-Hill knowingly published lies in order to whitewash history and absolve white Americans from this county's original sin: slavery.
Yes, you can "do better" but only by publishing the truth. There is no shortage of Black American scholars to guide you. Tonya Alston
It wasn't "forced migration" it was kidnapping. Africans were kidnapped, stripped of their families, culture and language, and were sold to the highest bidders...like cattle. They BECAME enslaved when they were kidnapped by Europeans. They sold, belittled, raped, starved, beaten and tortured. They nursed and raised your babies while having to neglect their own (who were also sold)...for centuries. Every effort was made to dehumanize them but they persevered.
McGraw-Hill knowingly published lies in order to whitewash history and absolve white Americans from this county's original sin: slavery.
Yes, you can "do better" but only by publishing the truth. There is no shortage of Black American scholars to guide you. Tonya Alston
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Ayanna JJ
This was not forced migration, that's what happens when , there is a climate change and the people move to survive . This was kidnapping and enslavement. You are teaching children , the truth should be there. What do you call the holocaust? Is this forced migration, forced showers?? Telling the truth is not a condemnation. If we do not know our past it will be repeated. Perhaps , it should not be in the immigration section at all as that's not what it was....
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To La Bu
Please ensure the label "forced migration" IS NOT used to describe the enslavement of Africans. Keep it simple, my ancestors were captured, packed into ships, dehumanized, and enslaved. Flip to another chapter in your text for guidance as I'm certain the Holocaust is depicted differently.
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Sarah Washington
But I still don't like how they're now using the term "forced into migration." Call it what it was: horrific slavery! Describe how families were purposefully ripped apart, people were forbidden to speak their native languages, slaves were raped and inbred. Tell the whole truth! As a matter of fact, explain that "Race" only became a term to justify slavery so they could keep the cash cow. Humph!
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Jasmine Harris
Point blank....leave the history as it stands! This was not "forced migration" it was abduction, murder, genocide, hate fueled capitalism. Leave the term slavery in our children's textbooks so they can understand the immense pain that African Americans still feel to this day. Forced migration would not harbor ill feelings in a society, but call it what it is. Slavery and the freeing of slaves produced the mindsets of racism! So, are you going to rewrite Native American history, too? Are you going to call that "relocation"? Recall the printed books NOW and put the term SLAVERY back in there! We will take this to a national level and get all entities involved! Everyone contact your local NAACP and Urban League chapter presidents, get them involved. Contact all your community advocates. Let's get traction on this NOW!
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Sarah Wallis
"Forced migration"? Try mass kidnapping, rape, and genocide. Totally inadequate, McGraw Hill.
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RHoyal Hunt
May want to add a vocabulary word in the glossary and use it throughout the text as well..
To whitewash is a metaphor meaning "to gloss over or cover up vices, crimes or scandals or to exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data". It is especially used in the context of corporations, governments or other organizations.
To whitewash is a metaphor meaning "to gloss over or cover up vices, crimes or scandals or to exonerate by means of a perfunctory investigation or through biased presentation of data". It is especially used in the context of corporations, governments or other organizations.
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Melissa Carter McBride
I want your organization to make public the exact language used in all of your history books. Throughout all 50 states plus Guam and Puerto Rico if you have a presence there. I demand that for all grades K-12. We the public needs to know what you've printed in totality. We know history and can discern Whitewashing about a myriad of historical events. Your entire curriculum needs to come under the microscope. I know in my heart of hearts, you conspired and printed lies elsewhere. This was not an isolated incident. Rusty Styles, we need to go big or go home on this.
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Shapearl Faulkner-Wells
And stop lying about Christopher Columbus discovering America he was a freaking terrorist ! He came over killed the Indians and said this land is now mine! Wtfudge!! He gangster the land from the Indians yet you revere him as a hero! If I would debunk all the lies in your book you'd need a new addition! And fix the history of Civil Rights Era and tell how the government murdered Medgar Evers, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King Jr
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Carolina Elizabeth
I can't believe you are trying to brainwash students by reinventing history to fit you and those that sign contracts paid with tax dollars for your books. SHAME on you and how very un-American. After so many of your "professionals"
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