Slavery is America’s past, our history, it may be a dim but it was recent and has lasting effects to this day. I do not just disagree with people that think it is irrelevant and should not be discussed, I believe it must be. It can be an awkward and depressing conversation, we all have great-grandparents unfortunately not all of them were great or even good people, the point of history whether ancient or recent is to know where we came from, to know what we as humankind have done wrong and to learn from those mistakes and gains. With the new way of looking at the past, this New Historicism we can hope to have a deeper and more informed view of history. Along with a more varied method of studying history, courses such as this one, Afrocentric
