I'm Meredith McCoy.

I'm Asan Kwame Jeffries, and this is teaching hard history, American slavery.

A special series from Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

Meredith McCoy, we've reached the end of the second season.

That is so hard to believe.

I am just thinking about all of the different material we've

covered, all the strategies we've discussed, all the cool people we've gotten a chance to talk to

and learn from. It's been a lot of fun. It's been a lot of fun and I have really learned so much

not only about how to teach American slavery, how to teach the history of indigenous

enslavement, but really how to think

about the past as well as the present. The fact that we're having these hard conversations and

thinking really carefully about how to teach this hard history, if all of us as educators in

higher ed and K-12 are thinking together about how to do this work. That gives me a lot of hope

for the future. And in this, our final episode of this season, we're excited to bring together

the many strategies we've discussed across both seasons for navigating those challenges so teachers

and students can develop a deeper understanding of the history and legacy

of American slavery. And to help us make sense of the history of the enslavement of African

people, as well as the history of enslavement of indigenous people, we've actually done something

really special. We've reached out to Dr. Bethany Jay, who is the co-editor, along with Cynthia Lynn Lirely,

of understanding and teaching American slavery.

Bethany was also the first scholar in the very first episode of Season 1, and she's going to

join us in this episode to help us really make sense of the connections, the parallels, the similarities, and those things that are different between the history of indigenous enslavement and the history of the enslavement of African people.

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