Teacher Recreates Slave Ship Floor

The peak time of slave ships to the atlantic passage was between the 18th and early 19th centuries when large plantations developed in the southern colonies of north america.

Teacher recreates slave ship floor. Students at middle school 118 told the new york daily news. A bronx teacher is under investigation after a report found that students were forced to lie on the ground as part of a slavery lesson. Slave decks were often only a few feet high and the african captives were shackled together lying down side by side head to foot or even closer. Patricia cummings a teacher at middle school 118 in the bronx ny reportedly traumatized her seventh grade students during a lesson about the middle passage a horrific part of the slave trade.

September 20 2017 10 45 am order. Kohlman said you work so hard jessie and you do so much for the school i ll let you use him whenever you want i looked up at her. Carmen black parker has been pressing school officials about the incident. Middle school 118 teacher patricia cummings shocked and traumatized children in her social studies classes when she singled out black students and told them to lie on the floor for a lesson on u s.

The daughter of carmen black parker and joshua parker was cast as an enslaved person in a classroom play in hamden conn. To the slave traders these human beings were cargo and slave ships were especially designed to transport as many captives as possible with little regard for either their health or their humanity. Social studies teacher patricia cummings reportedly had black students lie on the floor to pretend they were slaves during class in her bronx new york middle school. I was their foot slave.

Slave exhibit recreates horrors of transatlantic trade tiny colorful glass beads left found on the wreckage site of the henrietta marie slave ship were made in europe. In the early 1600s more than a century after the arrival of europeans to the americas demand for unpaid labor to work plantations made slave trading a profitable business. They were often used to. Teachers acted as slave ship captains and taped 8th graders wrists for lesson on slavery by greg hadley.