Students then learn about the face of slavery in different parts of the world and use the information to imagine what it would have been like to be a slave in a different time and place.
Students then interview one another and write one another's stories.
Review the Academic Content Standards related to this lesson. Contemplate the atrocities of slavery. Create a slave identity based on readings about the different faces of slavery in various times and places. Compose children's books based on interviews of classmates and their new slave identities. Countries of focus may include Brazil, the United States, Haiti, Greece, India, China, Russia and Sudan.