pp, 140 -148 in Rethinking Mathematics: Teaching Social Justice by the Numbers
By Bob Peterson
Web Resources
Websites that don’t tell “the truth”
The “student-friendly” websites with information about presidents – such as the White House’s gallery of presidents (http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents) – don’t mention that either Washington or Jefferson enslaved African Americans. Other popular sites with the same glaring lack of information include the National Museum of American History (http://www.americanhistory.si.edu/presidency).
More useful websites include:
Background on which Presidents owned enslaved people
http://www.understandingprejudice.org
Which Presidents Owned Enslaved People?
www.nas.com/~lopresti/ps.htm
(includes a description of which Presidents on US currency notes owned enslaved people)
The number of enslaved people George Washington owned:
https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/enslaved-people-at-mount-vernon/
How 17 enslaved people escaped from George Washington’s plantation:
https://www.mountvernon.org/george-washington/slavery/resistance-and-punishment/savage/
Additional resource for helping critique textbooks:
Jefferson and Slavery excerpt from school history textbook and historian James Loewen
http://www.rethinkingschools.org/archive/16_04/Jeff164.shtml
Bill of sale for an enslaved person signed by Dolley Madison.