Understanding and Teaching American SlaveryPerhaps no topic in U. S. history is as emotionally fraught as the nation's centuries long entanglement with slavery. How can teachers get students to understand the racist underpinnings of that institution and to acknowledge its legacies in contemporary America? How can they overcome students' shame, anger, guilt, or denial? How can they incorporate into the classroom important primary sources that may contain obsolete and racist terms, images, and