Don Wildman

How do you think this story is most relevantly received by young people today?

You know, you see these folks in your classrooms all the time.

How are they adhering to these ideas and applying them in their own lives?

Sure.

Perspective.

Yeah.

Understanding their wider perspective of this whole subject matter.

enslaved individuals are the largest asset in the United States by the 1800s.

That's insane.

That's amazing.

And disregarded by most people who want to move on from the subject to understand how important it really was.

The groundwork had been set for a future conflict that would finally end slavery.

But until then, the violence and trauma would continue.

It is a legacy we live with today.

And one would think that a nation would fight a war over this and then dispose of the system altogether.

But of course, that didn't happen so easily.

And we end up in reconstruction and all that's afterwards.

It's an enormous subject.

I hope this has been a helpful conversation for the audience to understand how complex this subject matter is.

And you have to start at the beginning.