Let’s teach children about slavery properly by connecting it to our present by Lola Okolosie

Lola Okolosie has written a well-written, thought-provoking article in the Guardian about updating our curriculum and indeed our attitudes. The last paragraph says it all. 

For educators in England, the lesson is clear. It is not enough to simply give our pupils knowledge of this history. There is work, too, in helping them draw the links between the past and how it has shaped the world we know. In doing so, we might be able to accept the truth: that it is a shared history with which all of us must reckon.