The state curriculum making the case that some slaves may have later benefited from skills developed during their enslavement undermines the lesson of chattel slavery, rabbis say.
“I find that absurd,” Rabbi Daniel Levin said of the notion that slaves were able to capitalize on the experience. “It would be like saying, ‘Well, you know the Holocaust wasn’t so bad. I mean, after all, Jews learned a lot of factory skills.’”
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