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From http://caneweb.org/new/?p=3044

Middle school Latin teacher Katy Reddick recently wrote a short article for the Classical Association of New England about teaching about slavery in her class. She writes, “Slavery is a difficult topic for my students. They struggle imagining it as anything other than race-based since they have read so much about the antebellum American south. As a result, their ideas of what slavery looks like are limited and there is a great deal of cultural baggage. Some students feel shame, others a sense of superiority- ‘I would never own a slave.’ Broadening the discussion to include modern day slavery enables students to move to a more nuanced definition, recognize slavery’s myriad forms, and contemplate how they support or fight slavery today.”

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