I'll never ever forget how my son's 1st grade Harcourt Brace reader featured an Aesop's fable and then after that had a brief biographical article about him. Imagine my surprise to learn that Aesop was actually an African storyteller. The sketch of him looked totally Mediterranean, but I was assured that he was, in fact, African. (Actually he was born a slave on the island of Samos, but I digress....).
Nobody gave a shit that this was incorrect....not the teacher, not the district office, not the curriculum director. That was our final year in government schools and we now homeschool.
Imagine my surprise to learn that Aesop was actually an African storyteller. The sketch of him looked totally Mediterranean, but I was assured that he was, in fact, African. (Actually he was born a slave on the island of Samos, but I digress....).You are contradicting yourself here. If he was a slave a slave, he HAD to be African. Only blacks were slaves; everyone else were bondsmen, or indentured servants, or thralls, or serfs, or esnes, or someother class of black exploiting non-slave.
The Black Panther I supervised about 40 years ago constantly told me all about it.