When you learned about slavery and segregation in America, was it taught as American history, or more specifically Southern history?

When you learned about slavery and segregation in America, was it taught as American history, or more specifically Southern history?
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answer:US History. Not being from the South, we didn’t have a Southern History course. Public schools in the northwest tend to have a northwest history section, and teach about the indigenous people and how we were scumbags to them as we took their land, cheated them and killed them off.
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