An expanded methodology is necessary due to the complexity of the slavery issue. My students need to grasp how the divergent beliefs that slavery was either just or unjust depended mostly upon points of view or points on a map. For them to grasp the division within the United States, more is required, much more than from a textbook alone. I need them to prove the facts regarding the complex nature of the issue. While I agree with their opinion, I need them to argue and validate their claims in a more substantial way. For the most part, my students go straight to the point that slavery was, and is, socially and morally abhorrent, and that is that. While I believe it is critical to examine slavery in the United States from multiple cultural and historical perspectives, my students do not. I consider it a daunting task to teach the existence of human bondage (slavery) in the United States to eighth-grade junior high school students. Frederick Douglass and Harriett Beecher Stowe: Two Sides to the Abolitionist Narrative by Tim Smith Introduction
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