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Professor's "Required" Textbook: Hold my beer.

What did you pay??

Well this is pretty ridiculous. They are literally re-writing history. How was this approved by an editor? There books typically cost $100 or more. How can it be that no one caught that? Is it pandering to Texas and other states that probably don’t want to admit to their role in the slave trade?

The publisher of a textbook criticized for an error that glossed over the topic of slavery has offered stickers to schools that will cover up a caption describing African slaves as “workers,” a spokeswoman said on Tuesday. A World Geography textbook by McGraw-Hill Education was published in Texas this year and says in a caption about immigration that the Atlantic slave trade “brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations.” A Houston woman whose son noticed the mistake touched off a social media storm last week with posts on Facebook and Twitter. Changes have been made in the digital version of the textbook, the publisher said, adding that a sticker would be sent to cover the error for books currently in use.