By: Donald V. Watkins Copyrighted and Published on July 25, 2023 Scourged back of Union Army Sgt. Peter Gordon, a runaway American slave of African descent. Today’s Republican politicians want to re-image the history of slavery in America to make it a benign chapter in our history as a nation. Led by Florida governor Ron DeSantis, many Republican-controlled state legislatures, governors, and state boards of education are now proclaiming that slavery, which was legal in Amer