James and Sandra Baker said their 12-year-old daughter came home from a four-day trip to Nature’s Classroom in Charlton, Mass., and told them about the activity, WFSB-TV reported.
The girl said students were led into a dark room, lined up and asked to imagine watching as their fathers were killed by slave masters before they were loaded onto slave ships.
The instructor ordered them to sit closely together and warned students that they would relieve themselves on one another and likely get sick, the girl said. She also told her parents that the instructor told her she may have to dance to entertain the others.
The students were then taken to some woods, where the girl said they pretended to pick cotton, and she told her parents the instructors called them animals who had no rights.
The instructors also threatened to whip her, cut her Achilles tendon or hang her if she tried to run away, Al Jazeera America reported.
