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Bennett Minton

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  • A history textbook open to a chapter called "How the Negroes Lived Under Slavery," with an illustration of a wealthy white man shaking the hand of a smiling enslaved African American man whose well-dressed family looks on while white laborers work.

    The Lies Our Textbooks Told My Generation of Virginians About Slavery

    State leaders went to great lengths to instill their gauzy version of the Lost Cause in young minds.
    by Bennett Minton via Washington Post on July 31, 2020
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