3. What did your teachers teach you about African American history in high school? My teachers in high school did not teach us very much at all about African American history aside from a bit about the Rwandan genocide. They did show us a video clip from a movie, I think it was called “The Middle Passage”, about slave ships. It showed a lot of African people completely naked and chained being loaded into a ship. White men on the ship were yelling at them to lay down ontop of eachother, as if they were piling up blankets instead of human beings. The ship is rocking furiously and people were getting seasick from being thrown around so violently. One woman was pregnant and in labor, but nobody could help her since they were all chained together.
