Why Schools Fail To Teach Slavery's 'Hard History'

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By the time George Washington died, more than 300 enslaved people lived and toiled on his Mount Vernon farm.

Painting by Junius Brutus Stearns, 19th Century.

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"In the ways that we teach and learn about the history of American slavery," write the authors of a new report from the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC), "the nation needs an intervention."