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Outrage from a students Mother at the wording in a textbook initiated the change. McGraw-Hill said that the book will be changed. “We conducted a close review of the content and agree that our language in that caption did not adequately convey that Africans were both forced into migration and to labor against their will as slaves,” Furthermore they said, “We believe we can do better. To communicate these facts more clearly, we will update this caption to describe the arrival of African slaves in the U.S. as a forced migration and emphasize that their work was done as slave labor.”
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