'Disgrace': Horror as red state's new history course calls slavery a 'necessary evil'

The Tallahassee Democrat reported on Tuesday that Florida will start offering the alternative course as a pilot program in the fall. The state-developed course will offer credit at Florida colleges and universities to compete with the AP course, which offers credit at colleges and universities across the country.Commentators like Kruse pointed out that the curriculum will describe slavery as a necessary evil, frame Plessy v Ferguson as a result of the failure of Reconstruction after the Civil War, and credit federal law that counted slaves as three-fifths of a person for decreased slave power representation. Yes, allowing slave states to count their slaves for the purposes of political representation and thereby gain additional power was an *anti* slavery measure, Kruse sarcastically said. Yes, no questions there.Others similarly reacted with alarm. It begins, Nicole Shuman wrote on Bluesky. What a godd--- disgrace, wrote Carly Goodman. Oh no, Adam Rothman posted, highlighting a section of the curriculum that described Black indentured servants as languishing even though they could earn their freedom. Florida has been trying to battle woke ideologies since passing state laws in 2023, the Tallahassee Democrat noted.