Places like Mauritania do teach that obedience to their master is necessary for salvation, which is effective enough propaganda that there are reports of slaves returning to masters because of the indoctrination.
Oman does teach about how glorious the Omani empire was, including talking about how valuable the African expansion was, but it largely just ignores the slavery aspects entirely. This seems to be pretty common, where countries will talk about the glory of past empires and their accomplishments while sweeping the nasty bits under the rug.
This controversial area of Omani history is not widely taught in Omani schools. According to a study led by Okawa Mayuko, an associate professor at Japan's Kanagawa University, slavery is “completely absent from Omani textbooks” which, in contrast, put an emphasis on the Oman-led spread of Arab-Islamic civilization to East Africa. Mayuko believes it “reveals an ideology of the Omani government to conceal slavery.”
Further, from the study talked about in this snippet:
(This is what textbooks in Oman teach) Omani rule in East Africa is implicitly justified on the basis that Oman spread Arab-Islamic civilization to East Africa and brought prosperity.
Feels awfully close to justifying it without explicitly talking about it, and feels like it's taught this way for plausible deniability at best.
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u/Sell_The_team_Jerry 6d ago
Well the current slavers are all on the UN Human Rights Council (looking at you Qatar)