Introduce unbiased history education covering origins of racism and slavery

Currently, the history of slavery is a very sparsely covered subject in schools. Slavery goes back thousands of years but is currently believed to have been invented by white people and that white people are those solely responsible for the transatlantic slave trade.

This petition was rejected on 7th Jul 2020 as it duplicates an existing petition

The Petition Committee commented:
We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign: Reform the National Curriculum on the basis of equality and BAME representation: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324690 Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323961 Make black history a compulsory part of the national curriculum for all ages: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323654 Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/324092 Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/323808


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The current protests demonstrates that young people need to know the truth. I have been amazed to find that young people are very angry at white ancestors thinking that they invented slavery with the transatlantic slave trade, and that they can not accept that african ancestors were just as responsible and even opposed the abolishment as ‘the white man’ made them rich. I also think that the Spanish Inquisition should be covered especially as scholars believe it was the beginnings of racism.