Slavery
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Booker T. Washington - Lesson Plans & Teacher Guides - From the National Parks Service. To Be a Slave - K-1 Program Lifting the Veil - 2 - 3 Program War on the Home Front - 4 - 5 Program Cast Down Your Bucket! - 5 -7 Program Clash of the Titans - 11th Grade Program (Y, M, O, T)
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt - Activities and web resource developed as part of the Schools of California Online Resources for Educators (SCORE) Project, funded by the California Technology Assistance Program (CTAP). This supplemental unit provides resources for students in third grade to focus on life as a slave in the United States in the last century. During these lessons, students will view slave cabins, design a quilt, write their own poem about slavery, make an escape plan, and produce a wanted poster for a runaway slave.Students will discover the motivation and risks that a runaway slave would have when traveling the underground railroad to freedom. Grade 3 (Y)
Constitution for Kids - Grades 4 - 7 - Includes information on the basics, history, slavery, the Bill of Rights Women and how it all works together. Grades 4-7 (M)
The Constitution for Kids: 8th - 12th Grade - Includes information on the basics, history, slavery, the Bill of Rights Women and how it all works together. Grades 8-12 (O)
Activities and Lessons - From Teacher Views. Grade 3. (Y)
The Underground Railroad - You are a slave. "Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to. And yet . . . your soul lights up when you hear whispers of attempted escape. Freedom means a hard, dangerous trek. Do you try it?" (Y,M)
Slaves and conductors of the Underground Railroad - Learn why and how slaves escaped from their owners using the underground railroad, and who ran the underground railroad. Lots of online resources and activities. (Y, M, O, T)
Perspectives on the Slave Narrative lesson plan - This lesson plan introduces students to one of the most widely-read genres of 19th-century American literature and an important influence within the African American literary tradition even today. (O)
Anti-Slavery sentiments - From DiscoverySchool; discusses the Amistad case (O)
Slavery and the Underground Railroad - Uses Follow the Drinking Gourd to discuss the Underground Railroad (Y,M)
Slavery and the making of America - K-9 explore the role played by perspective and point-of-view in an examination of American slavery. (Y, M, O, T)
Slavery in America - Multiple lesson plans from for all age groups (Y, M, O, T)
Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories - "Voices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories provides the opportunity to listen to former slaves describe their lives. These interviews, conducted between 1932 and 1975, capture the recollections of twenty-three identifiable people born between 1823 and the early 1860s and known to have been former slaves. The almost seven hours of recordings were made in nine Southern states and provide an important glimpse of what life was like for slaves and freedmen." (M,O,T)
Digital History - Children in History - "Young people were involved in all the crucial episodes of American history: They sailed with Columbus; served as go-betweens for English colonists and Indians; toiled as indentured servants; were kidnapped into slavery; fought in the Revolution and the Civil War; labored in coal mines and factories; and stood at the forefront of the Civil Rights movement. Many young people recorded their experiences in diaries, personal letters, and memoirs." (Y, M, O, T)