{"id":3069,"date":"2020-09-27T03:18:28","date_gmt":"2020-09-27T07:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/?p=3069"},"modified":"2020-09-27T03:18:28","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T07:18:28","slug":"tess-keating-blog-for-9-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.richmond.edu\/ldst1010304f2019\/2020\/09\/27\/tess-keating-blog-for-9-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Tess Keating Blog for 9\/27"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the course of this class, and reading Zinn\u2019s book, <\/span>A People\u2019s History Of The United States<\/span>, I have been shocked time and time again. Coming to University of Richmond and going into this class I thought I was somewhat well educated on American history, having taken it in high school, middle school, and learning about it in elementary school. However, this book and everything we have talked about have continued to make me feel like I have only been learning half the truth. It is becoming more and more clear that the education system is somewhat brainwashing society to believe that history in America is not brutal and that there is some bad, but it outweighed by the good. It is now overwhelmingly clear that this is not that case and that it is even worse that it is being covered up.<\/span><\/p>\n

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From a very young age we learned about slavery and how it was very bad, but I we are not really taught the full extent of it. I feel like I used to just consider it sort of a blip in history and that was so long ago, but it is so much more than that. It is taught as being an equivalent to all other countries and how there was slavery there too. It was unsettling for me to read, \u201cThere was no slavery in history, even that of the Israelites in Egypt, worse than the slavery of a black man in America\u201d (Zinn 180). Reading this came as a surprise to me because I never fully understood that slavery here was that much different than everywhere else, however it does make sense because we are still very much dealing with the effects and repercussions of it. Racism spawned from slavery which is still a huge problem in the United States. All of this makes me wonder how much else of the history I have learned has parts left out of it. I hope that these flaws continue to be exposed so that society is able to be educated about the past so we don\u2019t recreate it in the future. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Over the course of this class, and reading Zinn\u2019s book, A People\u2019s History Of The United States, I have been shocked time and time again.…<\/p>\n

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