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Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality instructional materials to
help you teach students about 18th-century slavery and the life of enslaved
Africans in the American colonies, including the following:
ELECTRONIC
FIELD TRIP: "CHAINED TO THE LAND"
21st-Century Technology Brings History Alive in Your Classroom
Plantation masters exploited the labor of enslaved Africans to become wealthy
in an agricultural economy. This story of slaves and their master explores the
economic, social, and racial realities of plantation life. With registration you
receive a Teacher's Guide, website access to additional activities and resources,
1-800 access to Colonial Williamsburg historians, Internet interaction, technical
assistance, and a classroom poster. (Grades 4–8), $100.00. To register call
1-800-761-8331 or go to
http://www.history.org/trips/
SLAVERY:
A COLONIAL ODYSSEY
Lesson Plans and Materials Designed by Teachers for Teachers
Explore slavery's pervasive influence on the new American nation. This unit includes
lessons on the slave trade, slavery and the slave economy, life as a slave, slave
culture and traditions, and slave codes, and includes the book
Slavery in the
Colonial Chesapeake by David Brion Davis.
(Grades 4–12), $34.95.
Purchase
online
HANDS-ON
HISTORY: SLAVE'S BAG
Eighteenth-Century Artifacts for the Classroom
Discover the hands-on excitement of historical investigation. Turn a Slave’s
Bag inside out. Slaves often carried their personal belongings in a bag or basket.
This simple drawstring fabric bag contains a bill of sale, an oyster shell, flint
and steel, a wooden spoon, a pewter button, a piece of chain, a feather quill,
and a pair of stockings.Teacher materials include a lesson strategy, discovery
worksheet, annotated artifact inventory, glossary, graphic organizers, primary
sources, and illustrations.
(Grades 3–8), $75.00.
Purchase
online
ENSLAVED
A Colonial Williamsburg Becoming Americans Series Video
How did slavery come to America? Two 20-minute episodes explore the legal progress
of slavery—the system of race-based chattel slavery that has influenced the
course of American history to this very day. (Video-40 mins.with web access to
comprehensive teacher materials.) This program is part of our
Becoming
Americans Video Series.
(Grades 4–8), $34.99.
Purchase
online
A
DAY IN THE LIFE
Instructional Videos
What was a day like in 1774? How did people live? Actually, it depended on
who you were. A Day in the Life looks at the lives of eight people—men
and women, young and old, free and enslaved—to give your students a look
at daily life in colonial America. Each eighteen-minute video is a window to
the daily life of people in early America. Includes a CD-ROM with 180 pages
of lesson plans and primary source materials. (Grades 4–8), $99.00. Purchase
online
CAESAR'S
STORY: 1759
An Eighteenth Century Williamsburg Child Tells His Story
Why do things have to change? Caesar lives with his family, but he is a slave
and when the master selects him to be a personal servant in the big house Caesar
has to obey.
(Grades 4–6), $9.95.
Purchase
online
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