What are the most important messages for teachers to remember when teaching about slave history in the classroom?
Slavery could be compared in the classroom to the life of a child that is traumatized in infancy by the onset of asthma. This narrative, if examined in depth with sensitivity, would explore the dark side of an infant being challenged for every breath. It would also explore the parental response of seeking medical assistance that would enable the infant to run free. A student would need to understand that no miracle drug will bring instant relief to the asthmatic, that there is no permanent cure, but with medication, parental supervision and the pain of exercise, many asthmatics have emerged as Olympic champions in a wide range of sports and tens of millions of asthmatics live relatively normal lives. Enslavement, like most chronic diseases, foreclosed the free movement of the Black body, forbade the development of the Black mind, and was designed to eliminate any thought of a future that included freedom. The physical act of escaping on the part of the enslaved was combined with the de
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