1 / Slavery, Power and the Human Cost Opening with Ira Berlin\'s reflections on ten elements that are essential to include in any course on this topic, Understanding and Teaching American Slavery offers practical advice for teaching specific content, utilizing sources, and getting students to think critically. Understanding and Teaching American Slavery Edited by Bethany Jay and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly As the American Anti-Slavery Society says, “if you will goon branding, scourging, sundering family ties, trampling in the dust your down trodden victims, you must do it at your own peril.” Understanding and Teaching American Slavery is an anthology of essays written especially for college and high school teachers tasked with instructing students about the history of slavery in the United States. How can teachers get students to under But to the idea of what you at the North have to do with Slavery. Opening with Ira Berlin's reflections on ten elements that are essential to include in any course on this topic, Understanding and Teaching American Slavery offers practical advice for teaching specific content, utilizing sources, and getting students to think critically. The timeliness of this edited collection will likely find many educators wanting to incorporate the collective text and/or individual chapters into their courses. The slave trade not only led to the violent transportation overseas of millions of Africans but also to the deaths of many millions more. Understanding and Teaching American Slavery [Bethany Jay, Cynthia Lynn Lyerly and Ira Berlin]. You furnish the bulwark of protection, and promise to put the slaves in bondage. Its curator of American Slavery, Mary Elliott, cowrote the history of slavery below — told primarily through objects in the museum's collection. Understanding and Teaching American Slavery purports to do what any thinking person in this country might consider an impossible task: provide an academic scheme for explaining the insidious institution of slavery in this country and its continuing ramifications within American culture. Today the persistent disparities African Americans face — and the backlash that seems to follow every African-American advancement — trace their roots to slavery and its aftermath. But SPLC research shows our schools are failing to teach the hard history of African enslavement. Understanding and Teaching U.S. Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History Edited by Leila J. Rupp and Susan K. Freeman. No. In teaching the history of American slavery accurately, it is essential to teach about African Americans’ resistance to slavery. To understand the world today we must understand slavery. 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