A lesson plan for using primary sources to understand slavery. Click on Teacher Center or Learning Activities to access classroom ideas. A literature unit for The Slave Dancer by Paula Fox is included source Voices of Slavery - An article about using slave narratives to teach students about slavery in the United States. Amistad Incident - A collection of lesson plans and activity ideas for teaching about the Amistad revolt.
Students participate in a mock trial, examine primary source documents, and more.
Through printable primary source documents, and fourteen lesson plans, students learn about abolition, women's suffrage, and their connections source Charting the Slave Trade - A lesson plan with a printable activity page. Includes a timeline, character sketches, and a quiz source Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl - An excerpt from a dramitization of the words of Harriet Ann Jacobs on slavery. The Slave Trade - Students learn about the triangle trade through this interdisciplinary unit. Lessons explore mapping trade routes, oceanography, historical perspectives, and mans' inhumanity to man. For hints and answer key, click on source source Two Tickets To Freedom - Vocabulary, activities, and reprodicibles for teaching the book, Two Tickets to Freedom.