Myra Davis-Branic discusses how slavery was taught in Public Schools based on region. Myra Davis-Branic, a native New Yorker and a product of the Great Migration, was taught in NYC Public Schools that slavery was a “Down South Phenomenon”. When she migrated south and started teaching Black History to at-risk youth to increase self-esteem and self-awareness, she learned that in the south, slavery was taught by emphasizing the so-called positive aspects of Southern Culture and minimized the brutality of slavery. She also discusses how slaves were the first commodity bought and sold on Wall Street and how all thirteen colonies, particularly the northern colonies, were complicit in the institution of slavery.
Slavery in the North v. Slavery in the South and the Common Connection
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