Read the colorful phrases from Alex Haley's Roots. Dell paperback, pages 215-217. Students can participate in a readers' theater from this section. Harriet Beecher Stowe describes an auction scene in here influential antislavery novel Uncle Tom's Cabin. Read this aloud.
Students can respond with a writing activity.
3.Use a Venn Diagram to compare and contrast a slave auction to a horse auction of today. Create a diorama of a slave auction scene. Recreate auctions hand bills using crushed grocery bags. Research your facts carefully for an accurate handbill. Use your research to create a graph that depicts the prices paid for enslaved Africans during a particular time period.