NOTE:

NH122 is the printed format

This title is also available for immediate download in digital format as NH122Ebook 

Through a variety of documents, including letters by abolitionists, slave codes, parish records, and folktales, students will explore the effects of slavery throughout society in the first half of the nineteenth century. Includes lessons on African-American culture, slaves’ resistance, abolition, women’s rights, and an annotated bibliography.

Grades 5-8

Lessons

Lesson One: Justification of Slavery and Its Effects on Whites
Lesson Two: Enslaved Labor
Lesson Three: African-American Culture Forged in Bondage
Lesson Four: Slave Resistance
Lesson Five: Abolition: The Leaders and Their Ideas
Lesson Six: Abolition and Women's Rights