In my Humanities class, we have been studying slavery in the American colonies. To gain a more personal understanding, we went outside and pulled apart cotton, made hoecakes and switchel, and sang slave songs. I'm really glad we did these activities because it made slavery a lot more real. It's easy to push back slavery into the "too far from recent memory to be relevant" category, but it's really important that we don't forget our country's true roots and that these were real people with these real atrocities happening to them that pushed racism into American culture for a long time.
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