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14 August 2015
Experiencing Slavery
Previous Nights Reading:
justification of slavery from DeBows Review
Frederick Douglass anti-slavery resource

Focused free write (5 minutes) and discussion of readings (5 10 min.): what is/was slavery?

#1. What were these people thinking and feeling?

#2 Were slaveowners bad?

Slaverys long impact - connecting it to the present.


How has slavery impact post-emancipation life? Who gets to say so?

Public Enemy, Cant Truss It (released in 1991)


Look here come the judge
Watch it here he come now
I can only guess whats happenin
Years ago he woulda been
the ships captain
Gettin me bruised on a cruise
What I got to lose, lost all contact
Got me layin on my back
Rollin in my own leftover
When I roll over, I roll over in somebody elses
90 fuckin days on a slave ship
Count em fallin off 2, 3, 4 hundred at a time
Blood in the wood and its mine

Reading:
justification of slavery from DeBows Review
Frederick Douglass narrative, or another anti-slavery resource
[assessment: re-reading texts, interpretive ethics and making claims]

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