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Thinking about the portrayal of slavery in text and in film

Part 1: Based on what I have read and what I heard from other researchers, I would characterize evidence from the collection of historic teachings on the portrayal of slavery and enslaved people as carefully factual and usually very romanticized. Often the authors remained with their facts rather than picking a side, and truly didn't delve too deeply into the darker depths or wrongness of slavery, after all in its time it had been accepted.  The ideas and assumptions taught to students of the different ages showed how for the young it wasn't very mentioned, rather it only gave stories to try and begin teaching morals before slowly beginning to give more information of the time, teaching the younger ones on how to properly behave and begin to think in their time period. This might have impacted experience in and out of a classroom by giving students a way to interpret how the world was supposed to be seen, the norms to apply to daily life and how things should be, in a way in

The Truth of the Matter is Hard to Truly Uncover.

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Saloon Girls and their Truth "I always thought Saloon girls were women who were the flirty seducers of the west. I had assumed because of the movies I saw, and the romantic tales of Heros and Cowboys from the Old West that Saloon Girls were simply the disguised prostitutes of the time." ~Mack G. Originally saloons are thought of to be the bars of the old west. The exciting place with shoot outs, cowboys, alcohol, and dancing excitement. While in the movies the saloons of the old west are portrayed as such, with girls in suggestive roles, that is not quite the truth of what saloons really were. Saloons themselves were where a community lay that was not quite considered a town, think of it as a camping ground with many people setting up tents in the same area. That is exactly what little places with saloons were often more considered than official towns. These communities are what present-day think of as representing the Wild West Towns. It was at first that the