Advocating for Abolition: Staging an Abolitionist Society Convention

Author： Robinson Andy Schur Joan Brodysky

Publisher： National Council for the Social Studies

ISSN： 0037-7724

Source： Social Education, Vol.74, Iss.4, 2010-09, pp. : 178-183

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Abstract

What do our students remember about their 8th grade study of American history? Invariably they tell us that it is the historical simulations and the roles they played in them that stick in their memories, and vividly so. Other teachers across America have had similar successes implementing role-plays, and possibly some similar misgivings to ours; students often feel uncomfortable advocating for causes they find deeply offensive, such as the rights of monarchy or slaveholders. Of course, these role-plays have an important place in the curriculum; to understand the controversies of antebellum America, students must re-imagine them from all sides.

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