Me: Why are we reading primary sources of slave narratives during the civil war?
Student 1: To get their emotions and perspective?
Me: That’s half of it…
Student 2: Because it’s not interpreted by anyone else?
Me: Exactly! Who wrote the textbook?
Whole Class, unprompted: WHITE PEOPLE.
Me: Okay, I was going to say “people who didn’t live in the time period,” but also yes?
I taught them well…
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