6.6: 3 Things Children Need to Know About Slavery

First Name Basis Podcast

Jasmine Bradshaw

How To, Parenting, Education, Kids & Family

5 • 629 Ratings

🗓️ 16 June 2022

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

As a Black bi-racial person, learning about slavery growing up was so hard for me for so many reasons — it was traumatizing and heartbreaking to think about the conditions my ancestors lived through, it felt like a burden to be the only Black person in my class and having everyone look to me, and there were so many things that just didn’t make sense to me about it, but asking those questions was the last thing I wanted to do.

With Juneteenth coming up this weekend, I’ve been thinking about slavery and things I wish I would have known when I was a kid, and I realized that there are 3 specific things that I wish an adult would have told me — that none of them did because they probably didn’t know it themselves.

So in this episode, I want to help YOU learn those things so you can teach them to the kiddos in your life. Listen in to learn the 3 important truths your kids need to understand about slavery.

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Articles, Studies, & Podcasts Referenced in the Episode

First Name Basis “What is Juneteenth?”

First Name Basis “Talking To Your Children About Slavery”

First Name Basis “The Untold Story of Christopher Columbus”

“Lies My Teacher Told Me” by James Loewen

Ally Elementary

National Museum of African American History and Culture

Teaching Hard History Podcast created by Learning for Justice

“How The Word Is Passed” by Clint Smith

“30 Fun Things to Do in Nashville With Kids: The Best Family Friendly Attractions” *please note: I am linking this article because I want you to see how terribly they talk about plantation visits, I DO NOT recommend this article

Belle Meade: Historic Site & Winery

Song Credit: “Sleeper” by Steve Adams” and “Dive Down” by VYEN

Transcript

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0:00.0	You're listening to the First Name Basis podcast, Season 6, Episode 6.
0:05.6	Three Things Children Need to Know About Slavery.
0:15.2	Teaching our children to be inclusive and anti-racist starts with us within the sacred walls of our home.
0:23.3	First-name basis is designed to empower you with the confidence you need to be a leader in your family and a changemaker in your community.
0:31.4	Together, we will wrestle with hard questions and use the answers to create the world we want, a world that reflects our values of
0:39.5	inclusion, compassion, and courage. I'm your host, Jasmine Bradshaw, and I am so excited to be
0:47.3	on this journey with you. Hello, verse name basis fam. I am so glad you are here. Today I am going to start right out the
0:58.5	gate with a trigger warning for my black brothers and sisters and my black and indigenous people
1:04.0	of color. I want you to know that we're going to be talking about some really tough things,
1:09.2	both about slavery and just about racism in general.
1:12.7	So please take care of yourself and come back to this episode if you need to or not at all.
1:19.0	Just know that your healing and your strength is my number one priority.
1:25.3	Juneteenth is coming up this weekend. and so naturally I've been thinking a lot about
1:30.1	slavery. You know that I always say Juneteenth is a time for reflection and reflection on my
1:36.2	own life, but also on the history of the country that I live in and the history of my family
1:41.6	and my ancestors. And so I've just been thinking so much about slavery.
1:45.1	And I've been thinking about things that I really wish an adult had told me when I was a child
1:52.1	learning about slavery.
1:54.1	So in this episode, I'm going to share with you three things that children need to know
1:57.8	about slavery.
1:58.5	And these really are from my own life, three things that I've
2:02.0	learned as an adult that I wish I knew way earlier. And it's kind of funny because this episode
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