Unit Five:

The Transatlantic Slave Trade

Week 1: European-created Conditions for Enslaved People

Monday: What did it mean to be enslaved?

  1. Watch: Portrait of a young girl (Priscilla)

http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/video/page/2/#241

  1. Watch: Portrait of a young baby (Rachel)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n58wc8lzR_k

  1. Write: What stands out to you about Rachel's and Priscilla's stories and the stories of hundreds of thousands of children who experienced slavery?


Tuesday & Wednesday: Who Came First and Why?

  1. Watch: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/african-americans-many-rivers-to-cross/video/page/2/#271

  2. The first people of African descent who came to what became the U.S. were free.

  3. Look through:

a) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/index.html

b) http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/timeline/index.html?iframe=true&width=100%&height=100%

c) http://sharondraper.com/timeline.pdf

  1. Create: Timeline

Blank/Butcher paper with dates and lines already on the paper

- Juan Gurido (1513)

- Esteban in (1538)

-Isabel de Olvera (1600)

- Portuguese ship follows direction of Spanish Crown to capture people from Angola and then gets taken over at sea by English Ships with Dutch flags. Enslaved people are violently divided up with one ship arriving at Point Comfort, Virgina in August 1619. (see: https://www.historyisfun.org/sites/jamestown-chronicles/angela_more.html)

- Mayflower (1620)

- Declaration of Independence (1776)

- Constitution (1787)

- Fugitive Slave Law 1793

- Trail of Tears (1831)

- First Meeting of the National Anti-Slavery Society (1837)

- Civil War (1861-1865)

- Emancipation Proclamation (1863)

- 13th Amendment Abolishing Slavery (1865)

- 15th Amendment Black men can vote (1870)

- Women’s right to vote (1920)


Thursday : What is the transatlantic slave trade?

  1. Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3NXC4Q_4JVg

  2. Write a list (at least 20 long): What did you learn from Anthony Hazard?


Friday

What is the middle passage?

  1. Watch together: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0IJrhQE6DZk

  2. Write: Impressions and questions


Christian Fleetwood, portrait (photograph), ca. 1890. Courtesy of the Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division.

Week 2: Researching and Learning from Enslaved People

Monday: How many people?

  1. Discover: 12 Million Enslaved People

http://www.inmotionaame.org/education/lesson.cfm?migration=1&id=1_001LP


Tuesday: Impact of Slavery on Africa

  1. Read: How did European-led slavery do to African people, communities and governments?

http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/topic.cfm?migration=1&topic=9&tab=image


Wednesday: How do we learn about their lives and value each enslaved person as a human being?

  1. Watch: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/memories/index_flash.html

  2. Read through: http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/community/community.htm

http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/identity/identity.htm

  1. Make a movie: What does it mean to see enslaved people as full human beings? When you let yourself do this - how does this impact how you think about European-driven slavery?


Thursday: Who will you research and learn from?

  1. Look up: Names and choose someone who you would like to learn from and about

  1. North American Slave Narratives (Documenting the American South): http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/texts.html

  2. Names for Enslaved People Project: http://www.gutenberg.org/files/15263/15263-h/15263-h.htm#resurr

(This is the book by William Still – each chapter is a short narrative from an North American Slave Narratives: http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/ (Alphabetically by name – just look up people or click on someone to see their narrative.)

  1. WPA Slave Narratives: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/memories/index(Alphabetically by name – just look up people or click on someone to see their narrative.)


Friday: Research Field Trip

Example: Local History Center to see documents, historical sites for enslaved or freed people

Example: Black Austin Tours

*These tours should be led and informed by the Black community of your local area with appropriate compensation from schools and thank you notes from students. Students need to be prepared to show respect and honor those whom they will learn about and from.


Week 3: Lives of Enslaved and Formerly Enslaved People

Monday: Preparing to Research

  1. Guest Speaker (Video)

Dr. Daina Ramey Berry on Lives of Enslaved Families and Communities

  1. Share the person you will research and find any additional resources you can.


Tuesday-Thursday: Research and Preparation Days


Wednesday: Research and Preparation Day


Friday: Present and Share: Shoebox Movies