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Finding Family after slavery

Reconstruction

(1865-1877)

Click the LINK to read about freed people's search for family after emancipation.

Question:

In your own words, how would you compare Mary Ellen’s search for her family with those who searched for family members who were separated at the US southern borders in recent years? Please write 3-5 complete sentences to answer.

Follow the link to reach the website.

Assignment: After selecting your state, locate an ad placed by someone in your selected state. After reading the ad, answer the following questions:

Who placed the ad?
Who were they looking for?
In what newspaper did they place the ad ?
Where did they believe their missing loved one was located? How do you think they determined this?
Identify at least two interesting details that you noticed in the ad. Why are they interesting?
Is there any language that doesn't make sense or needs to be clarified in the ad? (be specific)

YOU WILL HAVE 20 MINUTES TO FIND AN AD FROM YOUR STATE AND COMPLETE THE QUESTIONS.

PAIR AND SHARE

Find a partner and discuss your answers and compare the ads. What do you and your partner have in common?

PAIR AND SHARE Part 2

Once you have one thing in common with your partner, then as a pair find another group that has the same thing in common.

KEEP GOING ...

We will continue this process until the largest possible group has been formed.

SEE HOMEWORK BELOW.

Henry Tibbs DBQ

For our weekend assignment, we will be completing a document-based question on Henry Tibbs, a former enslaved man.

Prompt: We get a story about Tibbs from the official sources. Then we get one, of his own making, from the ad. How does Tibbs' ad help us to understand his experience of slavery, family, and freedom? What does the ad show us that we cannot get from the other sources. To what extent does the ad supplement/change what we know about Tibbs’s life?