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I played ‘Slave Tetris’ so your kids don’t have to

I knew something was wrong when I found myself doing doughnuts in a fully loaded slave ship off of Ivory Coast.

During the past week, an educational game aimed at elementary and middle school students titled “Playing History 2 — Slave Trade” has been the subject of online controversy over a brief segment that involved puzzle-stacking the bodies of cartoon slaves inside a ship. This earned the game the nickname “Slave Tetris.”

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