Photograph ofs Greater Flamingo

Let My People Go

Flamingos 7th Grade Project On Slavery

Mr. Larkin (Social Studies) & Mrs. Light (English)
7th Grade Stafford Middle School, Plattsburgh NY

Working Files

Your Assignment

Rubric For Your Assignment

Parent Letter

Parent Email

Power Point Presentation

Slave Code Lyrics

Nightjohn Worksheet

Diary Brainstorm

Extra Credit Assignment

Black Loyalist Worksheet

Homework Diary

Pounds to Shillings

Web site Evaluation Guide

Creating Your Bibliography with:
M.L.A. Style

Articles &
Authentic Diaries

Life on Plantations

Slavery in Colonial North America

Slave Diary 1

Slave Diary 2

Code Quilts

Class Overview

Day 1: About the Powerpt.

Day 2: Feb. 11

Day 3: Feb. 14

Day 4: Feb. 15

Day 5: Feb. 16

Slavery– Starting Resources
	African-American Experience http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/Af_Amer/aalife.cfm
	Africans in America Web site http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/narrative_txt.html The Growth of Slavery in North America http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr5_txt.html Religion and Slavery http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2narr2.html
	Sirs Discoverer Database: Excellent Articles and graphics from more than 1,600 U.S. and international magazines, newspapers and U.S. government documents. http://trials.proquest.com/ptc?userid=1054518 password=11364
	Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia Americana Look Here for General Information (Geography, History etc.) Ask Mr. Puschak for the password for home access

Web Links

Primary Documents & Illustrations:

http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/search.html

Daily Life of Slaves:

http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/slavery/antebellum_slavery/plantation_slave_life/health.htm

http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/dayinlife/plantation/home.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2956.html

http://www.headleypark.bristol.sch.uk/slavery/tradetriangle/plantationlife.htm

http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/slavery_life_cycle.htm

http://www.stratfordhall.org/africa.html?HISTORY

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JACOBS/hj-images.htm

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=44

http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs313a,0,5978045.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us16.cfm

http://www.crt.state.la.us/crt/ocd/arch/greathou/quar1.htm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/slaves/

Slave Diary Excerpts:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/burton/burton.html

http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs/wwm97262/@Generic__BookTextView/187;hf=0#X

http://docsouth.unc.edu/williamsjames/williams.html

http://xroads.virginia.edu/%7Ehyper/wpa/wpahome.html

Middle Passage:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr4.html

http://www.johndclare.net/slave_trade2.htm

http://www.radford.edu/~geog-web/alliance/activity4.html

http://www.antislavery.org/breakingthesilence/main/Activities/03_TriangularTrade.pdf

WPA Slave Narratives:

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fpnas:@field(SUBJ+diaries):heading=Diaries

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fpnas:autobiography:heading=Autobiographies

By Name: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/mesnbibnarrindex.html

By State: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/mesnbibStates1.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/vfssp.html

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/index.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snvoices00.html

Underground Railroad:

http://home.earthlink.net/~lthorn/lnks.html

http://www.ugrworkshop.com/welcome.htm

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/

http://www.freedomtrail.org

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSLAMusicCivilWarUnit-UnitOutline46.htm

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plans/lesson-4969.html?detoured=1

http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ugrr/

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2273/

http://www.remc11.k12.mi.us/bstpract/bpIII/091/091.PDF

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/routes.htm

Code Quilts:

http://www.clarkston.k12.mi.us/blanchdr/quilt.htm

http://home.columbus.rr.com/bradshaw/UNDERRR/quilt/underground_railroad_quilt.htm

http://www.africanaonline.com/slavery_codewords.htm

http://www.hartcottagequilts.com/railroad.htm

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/sweet/sweettg.html

http://my.voyager.net/~econnect/quiltcode.pdf

http://www.thesolutionsite.com/lpnew/lesson/16251/patchworkparade5.html

Abolitionists:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1561.html

Slavery in the North Country:

http://www.apnmag.com/Back%20in%20the%20Day/fall%2002/slaves/underground%20railroad.htm

Music Links and Lesson Plans:

http://archive.blackvoices.com/blackboard/bb_mus_000115.htm#mat

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/TWH/TWH_intro.html

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/gourd.htm

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2282/

http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/sbgoose/math5.html

http://www.iupui.edu/~geni/lsort/spirituals_ugrr_rt.html

http://www.negrospirituals.com/

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSLAMusicCivilWarUnit-AppendixB-OnAnUndergroundRailroad46.htm

Music Related to Slavery
African Drumming	Congas by Atiba Cazembe	John Brown's Body	Vocals by Ramon Brant & Roscoe Boyd, Drums by Brazz P. Evans III
More Drumming African		John Henry.mp3	Lead Vocals by William Trice
Amazing Grace.mp3		Jacobs Ladder.mp3
de Lawd.mp3		Steal Away.mp3
African Marketplace.mp3
Death.mp3	Middle Georgia Singers	Swing Low Sweet Chariot.mp3	Vocals by Velma Maia Thomas
Ham Bone	Ellis Phelps and Brazz P. Evans	Witness	Vocals Roscoe Boyd & Chorus Arranged by David Morrow
I'll Fly Away.mp3
Down By The Riverside	Vocals by Kathryn Stanley, Martin Woods and Yolanda Williams

Copyright © Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 2005

*Source: Newsweek Magazine
As many as 300 slaves were packed into ships for the 'Middle Passage' from Africa to the Americas

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