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How One Educator Is Teaching Slavery In The Classroom

Justin Emrich uses primary sources to teach slavery to his middle school students.
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Justin Emerich is a middle school social studies teacher at Olentangy Berkshire Middle School. Each year, he focuses part of the curriculum on teaching slavery. Emerich used primary resources to teach the subject and says he felt like he let students down before he started teaching it in the classroom.