We thought this story was a fake because who in their right mind would attempt to relabel slavery as immigration in 2015? Apparently, the publishing giant McGraw-Hill thought no one would care or pay attention if they started rewriting history, so they did this very thing.

However, Texas mom Roni Dean-Burren caught this travesty in her son’s school book “World Geography” and took to the internet to complain and call out the publishing company for their gross misinterpretation of history.

Dean-Burren navigates everyone to a section in the book called “Patterns of Immigration”, where the travesty begins.

From ABC13.com: Dean-Burren pointed viewers to a section called “Patterns of Immigration.” Reading from the book, she notes the inclusion of slaves as immigrants.

“‘Immigrants,’ yeah, that word matters,” Dean-Burren said, “(Reading from the text) ‘The Atlantic slave trade between the 1500s and the 1800s brought millions of workers from Africa to the southern United States to work on agricultural plantations. So (slavery) is now considered ‘immigration’.”

She adds, in an adjacent section on European immigrants, that many came as “indentured servants to work for little or no pay.”

Dean-Burren continues, “So they say that about English and European people, but there is no mention of Africans working as slaves or being slaves. It just says we were workers.”

McGraw-Hill responded to the Texas Mom’s complaint and the internet backlash that followed with an apology and stating they will correct the “error” in the next version of the publication and in their digital version.

However, the damage has been done and we know the fix is in.

There is no way in the world this was an “error” and we know this had to be intentional by the writers, editors, publishers and companies because there are multiple levels of checks and balances by people in the publishing industry. Everyone involved must have been complicit or incompetent in the field of publishing.

Remain diligent, good people. This isn’t the first time history has been rewritten and if we aren’t careful, it won’t be the last.