ABSTRACT
This chapter offers some suggestions of avenues for further research and presents how the text may have implications for the classroom. Conducting classroom- and/or community-based research can expand slavery study. Using the research methods in this study to read and discuss picture books about slavery with students would be worthwhile. The chapter discusses some possible sociopolitical implications of the existence of a significant number of contemporary picture books that represent the institution of slavery. There are several pedagogical implications that classroom teachers and students can glean from this book. The picture book also encourages classroom teachers and teacher educators to use Critical Multicultural Analysis (CMA) to explore how race, class, gender, and power relations are represented in neo-slave narratives that have been written for children. This book can also serve as an example of a methodological approach that can be used to explore the historical discourses that teachers are required to cover in the classroom.
