Ms. Mary K. Carter

Dr. Singer and Mary K. Carter, an adjunct instructor at Hofstra,

Mary K. Carter, an adjunct instructor at Hofstra University, speaks about New York's role in the American Slavery System, at Oyster Bay High School in Oyster Bay, N.Y., Wednesday, March 1, 2006.For Carter and a colleague, Oyster Bay is the latest stop in their quest to develop a public school curriculum guide focusing on slavery's impact in the northern United States, specifically New York.
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Singer and Mary Carter, a retired middle school social studies teacher, were in Oyster Bay recently to speak to the kids - part of a quest to develop a public school curriculum guide focusing on slavery's impact in the northern U.S., specifically New York.
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"Many people are surprised when you talk about slavery's existence in New York," Carter said."They're surprised because it's taught as something that happened in the South."

In three separate sessions with Oyster Bay students in grades 7-12, Singer and Carter sought to impart that it is important for them to know about the role slavery played in U.S. history.

In addition, Alan Singer and Mary Carter of Hofstra University will offer a session on Thursday: John Brown and Frederick Douglass: Freedom Fighters or Terrorists, taken from their 2005 NCSS Social Studies Program of Excellence Award, "New York And Slavery: Complicity and Resistance."

Singer and Mary Carter, a retired middle school social studies teacher, were in Oyster Bay recently to speak to the kids , part of a quest to develop a public school curriculum guide focusing on slavery's impact in the northern U.S., specifically New York.
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"Many people are surprised when you talk about slavery's existence in New York," Carter said."They're surprised because it's taught as something that happened in the South."

In three separate sessions with Oyster Bay students in grades 7-12, Singer and Carter sought to impart that it is important for them to know about the role slavery played in U.S. history.
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AP Photo: Mary K. Carter, an adjunct instructor at Hofstra University, speaks about New York's role in ...

For years, Mary K. Carter felt that New York's two-century history as a slave state was treated as an embarrassing secret, mostly ignored in school curriculums.

"Many people are surprised when you talk about slavery's existence in New York," said Carter, a Freeport resident and retired middle-school teacher in the Rockville Centre school district. "They're surprised because it's taught as something that happened in the South."

So when the education department at Hofstra University began working on a curriculum to help school children understand how the enslavement of Africans helped build New York's wealth and power, she joined the team.

For years, Mary K. Carter felt that New York's two-century history as a slave state was treated as an embarrassing secret, mostly ignored in school curriculums.

"Many people are surprised when you talk about slavery's existence in New York," said Carter, a Freeport resident and retired middle-school teacher in the Rockville Centre school district."They're surprised because it's taught as something that happened in the South."

So when the education department at Hofstra University began working on a curriculum to help school children understand how the enslavement of Africans helped build New York's wealth and power, she joined the team.

The curriculum guide was edited by Dr. Alan Singer and Mary Carter of the Hofstra University School of Education and Allied Human Services.

Mary K. Carter, an adjunct instructor at Hofstra University, speaks about New York's role in the American Slavery System, at Oyster Bay High School in Oyster Bay, N.Y., Wednesday, March 1, 2006. For Carter and a colleague, Oyster Bay is the latest stop in their quest to develop a public school curriculum guide focusing on slavery's impact in the northern United States, specifically New York. (AP Photo/Ed Betz)

Photo: Mary K. Carter, an adjunct instructor at Hofstra University, speaks about New York's role in the American Slavery System, at Oyster Bay High School in Oyster Bay, N.Y., Wednesday, March 1, 2006.For Carter and a colleague, Oyster Bay is the latest stop in their quest to develop a public school curriculum guide focusing on slavery's impact in the northern United States, specifically New York.
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Singer and Mary Carter, a retired middle school social studies teacher, were in Oyster Bay recently to speak to the kids - part of a quest to develop a public school curriculum guide focusing on slavery's impact in the northern U.S., specifically New York.
...
"Many people are surprised when you talk about slavery's existence in New York," Carter said."They're surprised because it's taught as something that happened in the South."

In three separate sessions with Oyster Bay students in grades 7-12, Singer and Carter sought to impart that it is important for them to know about the role slavery played in U.S. history.