evidence: Florida Schools Will Teach How Slavery Brought ‘Personal Benefit’ to Black People Middle school students in Florida will soon be taught that slavery gave Black people a "personal benefit" because they "developed skills." [...] Ron DeSantis Takes Aim at Department of Education in New Lawsuit "I am very concerned by these standards, especially some of the notion that enslaved people benefited from being enslaved," state Rep. Anna Eskamani (D-Orlando) said, per Action News Jax.