You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, episode three, talking to your kids about slavery.

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I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw.

I'm your host, Jasmineatshaw.

Hello, First Name Basis, fam. I am so glad you are here. Now that we have discussed talking to your young kids about race in episode one and talking to your older kids about race in episode two, we're finally ready to talk to

our kids about slavery. And if this feels like a heavy topic, that's because it is. There is no way

of getting around it. This is a really dark part of our American history,

but it's important that we don't turn away from the truth. Today I'm going to give you a few

do's and don'ts when it comes to talking to your children about slavery. Now, I'm not going to be

able to cover everything because, as I've said so many times before this is not a

one-time deal having these conversations is an ongoing experience and we're all kind of on this

journey for the rest of our lives together so I hope that the do's and don'ts that I provide

can give you guidance and a framework and help you to get started the first thing I want you to

do when you're talking to your

children about slavery is use the most current terminology. As we know, language evolves over time,

and I have recently read something really powerful that stuck with me. It was an article that

talked about the importance of saying a person who was enslaved rather than calling them a slave.

When you are able to talk about the person first, it humanizes them.

These people who were enslaved were so much more than the wretched conditions of oppression that were forced upon them. They were people

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