Emails obtained by Texas Monthly suggest the Texas Historical Commission was concerned about retaliation from lawmakers for carrying the books.
“Ugh, I wish I could just learn about the Southern pre-industrial economy without have to hear all this stuff about slavery…”
Oh dear, I almost choked when I read this. Well played.
I don’t think there would be even a leaflet of material let alone a whole book.
When a Historical Society is in fear of retaliation from law makers because they were teaching history, there’s obviously a big problem.
This was a manufactured problem used as an excuse to remove the books.
Basically a YouTuber karen has made it their personal mission to remove the books because she liked every about plantation history except acknowledging that “brutal enslavement” bit, so she makes a video about it and sends the video along with threats of contacting the legislature about the books to some low level party involved with the texas commission.
The spineless weasel watches the video, agrees with it, and then escalates the threat to the “historical society” leadership, which is all directly appointed by the executive branch of texas. They tell the weasel that they prefer to talk face to face, i.e “no records you idiot,” then suddenly 20+ books about slavery disappear from plantation gift shops, under the premise that a book must “be directly applicable to texas history.” Of course, some of those books about slavery are directly applicable, but they are still gone. Southern Cookbooks, books about flowers, things that are not applicable to texas history stuck around no problem.
This was a ginned up controversy, and all the parties involved worked together to remove books about slavery from slave plantations because they all wanted them gone.
This article has a deeper dive into what happened.
This article has a deeper dive into what happened.
That’s the exact same article as the OP. Did you mean to link a different article?
Yes indeed. Good catch. Ive fixed it now with this one.
