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Pam Mazanec, a member of the Colorado board of education, made headlines last week after expressing concerns that the new Advanced Placement U.S. History...
Mazanec’s statement on the United States ending slavery "voluntarily," while inartfully made, was still accurate when one takes an unbiased look at what Mazanec was trying to say.
Colorado education official wonders why the AP U.S. History curriculum misses what seems to her an obvious point -- that the United States voluntarily ended slavery.