On Friday in class, we were talking about slavery, and we made a lot of connections to Frederick Douglass. After a short class discussion, Mr. Boyle handed out 3 different narratives that explain different views of slavery. My group was assigned the longest reading, so it took a much longer time to read it than normal. It absolutely broke my heart. The hard life that the woman had aboard the ship was so terrible that it hurt my heart. It made me feel like humanity is most definitely not restored, and that treating people like that is so unnecessary that we need to have a serious intervention on how we are leading out lives. Treating real people like the way we treated the slaves gives me great pain. We were to create a storyboard following the reading, which showed in pictures what happened to the slaves. It kind of solidified our understanding for what happened during the horrible slave trade.
Today in class, we simply finished up what we were going over with the storyboards. Mr. Boyle put each on up on the board and then gave each of us a 3 way Venn diagram, which we filled in with the 3 different stories of the slaves. It was interesting to see how slaves were treated in different ways at that time. After we discussed what we had put down for each experience, we got more papers and read about people in history that were either for or against slavery. We filled out a corresponding column in a sheet and then split up into different groups to share our information. We ended class talking about a project due in January.
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