-Slavery and Afro-descendants: a proposal for teacher training. This article will seek to reflect on a series of experiences with elementary school teachers from the city of Buenos Aires concerning ideas on slavery and Afro-descendants in the colonial period and during the wars for independence. It is an account of representations that have circulated on these topics in school events, textbooks and instructional materials. Next, the paper focuses on an educational experience aimed at the questioning of those traditions from the production of didactic sequences that considered a multisensory teaching. Thus, teachers appropriated the new knowledge and were protagonists of the curriculum development. Keywords: Slavery. Afro-descendants. Argentina. Elementary School. Teacher Training. RESUMEN -Esclavitud y Afrodescendientes: sobre una propuesta de formación docente. Este artículo buscará reflexionar sobre una serie de experiencias en las cuales se ha abordado con maestros de escuela primaria de la ciudad de Buenos Aires las ideas sobre la esclavitud y los afrodescendientes en la época colonial y durante las guerras por la independencia. Se realiza un racconto de las representaciones que han circulado sobre estos temas en actos escolares, textos curriculares y materiales educativos. Luego el trabajo indaga sobre una experiencia de formación en la que se propuso cuestionar esas tradiciones a partir de la producción de secuencias didác-ticas que consideraran una enseñanza multisensorial. Así, los docentes se apropiaron de los nuevos saberes y fueron protagonistas de la construcción curricular. Palabras-clave: Esclavitud. Afrodescendientes. Argentina. Escuela Primaria. Formación Docente.
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