African American

This history need to be told for multiple reasons. First, learning about this information would likely put an end to the myth that black people just accepted the lot in life and did not fight for their freedom. I remember, a few years ago, an Asian guy wrote an editorial criticizing black people. In the article, he claimed black people stayed in slavery so long because they did not fight to be free; they just waited for someone else to free them. I believe he went on to claim that Asians would never have allowed themselves to be kept as slaves so long. It seems his point was that black people were in the state that they were in because they did not have the strength to make themselves better.

Second, it would get rid of the myth that slavery was not that bad and black people were better off as slaves. There are too many people, mainly on the Republican side, who believe black should actually thank white people for slavery in that slave owners gave blacks food and shelter. Stories like this show the brutality of slavery and the fact that blacks did not enjoy being slaves.

Third, it would likely get rid of the myth that if black people had been given guns slavery would have ended years earlier. Reading this information we realize that although blacks did not have guns they used other weapons to kill their slave owners. The only thing that happened is that the slaves who killed their owners were either killed or punished.