Title: History created for your reading displeasure
Product review: I am appalled at many of the photographs in this text. There are many clearly staged photos of African-Americans in pseudo-historical garb portraying a happy life on the plantation. These "slaves" are dressed in pefectly clean clothing, do no field work and dance and sing, marry and hug and smile, all in a day's "work." While live re-enactments have their place at historical sites, here they are not surrounded by any context that explains the truth behind these images.The text may be helpful to children writing reports but I would not recommend this as a resource. If it comes home from the library, I can only hope that an adult is standing by to explain that these photos are of actors playing sanitized roles for the camera.
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