evidence: Harris said Florida "decided middle school students will be taught that enslaved people benefited from slavery." [...] July 21, 2023 - People, Florida middle schoolers will now be taught that slavery had ‘personal benefit’ for enslaved people, July 20, 2023 - NBC News, New Florida standards teach that Black people benefited from slavery because it taught useful skills, July 20, 2023 - BBC News, Florida's new black history curriculum 'sanitised', say critics, July 20, 2023 - Channel 10 Tampa Bay, Florida Department of Education stacks Black history task force with DeSantis allies, June 8, 2023 - Dr William Allen, Tweet, July 21, 2023 - Republican National Committee, Tweet, July 20, 2023 - The Independent, "DeSantis defends Florida curriculum that suggests slaves benefited from forced labour," July 23, 2023 - Email interview with Bruce Levine, emeritus professor of history at the University of Illinois and author of "Half Slave & Half Free: The Roots of Civil War," July 21, 2023 - Email interview, Ashley Rogers Berner, associate professor, Director of the Institute for Education Policy at Johns Hopkins University, July 21, 2023 - Email interview, Marvin Dunn, psychology professor emeritus at Florida International University, July 21, 2023 - Email interview, Carol Anderson, Charles Howard Candler Professor of African American Studies Emory University, July 21, 2023 - Telephone interview,