Conversation

We were deep into a class discussion about The Battle of Gettysburg and the Civil War -- the setting for the novel we are reading entitled The Mostly True Adventures of Homer P. Figg -- when a young student from the front row asks, Were all slave owners bad? To which I replied: If you were someone who owned another human being, that was wrong, bad, reprehensible. Period. (I think what he was wondering is, Were some slaves treated better than others. My response still stands.) #smallstories