My eye opening moment of the night was when I really began to think about how I teach slavery to my kids. It is such a difficult topic to teach because textbooks almost dehumanize slaves, but how emotional do you want this to be for a group of 7-year-olds, especially if you have a predominantly African American classroom? How do you teach them the facts of slavery, without distancing them from it or getting them too close and personal and traumatizing them? All night I kept thinking back on a book I read while getting my master’s degree: The Half has Never Been Told by Edward Baptist. This book attempts to tell the history of slavery through the eyes of the enslaved, and it is certainly not student friendly. It is a riveting and emotional book that anyone studying slavery should read, but it focuses a lot on the daily lives of slaves, including marriages and the like. Small excerpts might be usable in class to help the students connect to the material a little more, but I would do so with caution. I want to re-read this before I teach any unit on slavery so that I can better answer my students questions.