Making the UK educational system include the history of The White Slave Trade · petition

What the petition asks

To ensure the education curriculum includes the History of the White Slave Trade as equally as the BAME Historical slavery. To make this compulsory for all UK students to learn.

With the recent BLM protests it has highlighted that little is taught about the white slave trade that runs alongside the black slave trade era. Young people are taught a bias view even though the enslavement of British/European people by the black slave traders surpass in numbers and ended later than the abolition of black slavery.

Our education system is the root cause of predjudice and division between races by only teaching one side of slavery.

Why it was rejected

There was already a petition about this issue. Duplicates are rejected so signatures collect in one place.

We have published the following petitions, which you might like to sign:

Reform the National Curriculum on the basis of equality and BAME representation: Reform the National Curriculum on the basis of equality and BAME representation

Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history: Making the UK education curriculum more inclusive of BAME history

Make black history a compulsory part of the national curriculum for all ages: Make black history a compulsory part of the national curriculum for all ages

Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum: Teach Britain's colonial past as part of the UK's compulsory curriculum

Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums: Add education on diversity and racism to all school curriculums

We have also published several petitions about race and equality more widely, which you can view here: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions?state=open&topic=race-and-equality

Timeline

16 Jun 2020	Petition opened for signatures
7 Jul 2020	Rejected by the Petitions Committee