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Can teaching schoolchildren about Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade remain optional? | Morgan Ofori

Mounting evidence about how slavery shaped Britain shows that teaching about its history cannot be a matter of choice I often think back to my years as a secondary school history teacher, and to what I was and wasn’t able to teach.

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