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