It was an over reach in presenting this as a way to see what it feels like to have been a slave. Perhaps they should have had it as an exercise to see what it was like to be an indigent laborer.
Perhaps they should have it as an exercise to learn a “skill” of any kind other than, eating, sleeping, texting and sex.
I disagree.
My son attends a fantastic private school. One lesson they do in sixth grade is go on a 4 day camp where they have a slave sale.
Students pick their role out of a hat and are an owner, a slave capturer, a slave seller, or a slave. Then act out their roles over several days.
Some slaves escape on the railroad, some are captured, etc.
When they come back, they have a much better idea of the whole concept.
The school has done it for years without complaint.
Well, this is the problem.
It's the picking of cotton that is made to be the issue instead of the fact that slaves were forced to pick cotton or die.
These people are so ignorant that they revere symbols[he had to pick cotton!!] to the exclusion of what's truly important.
Liberty.