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Teaching Resources for Your Classroom

Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality instructional materials to help you teach students about slavery, free blacks, and life in early America, including the following:

Slavery: A Colonial OdysseySLAVERY: A COLONIAL ODYSSEY

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, 144 pages. $34.95. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or e-mail eftsupport@cwf.org.




Hands-On History: Slave's BagHANDS-ON HISTORY: Slave's Bag

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. Grades 3-8. $75.00. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or e-mail eftsupport@cwf.org.


EnslavedENSLAVED
Becoming Americans Video Series

Slavery - the ownership and forced exploitation of one person by another - was part of life in the American colonies. How did slavery come to America? Two 20-minute episodes explore the legal progress of the race-based chattel slavery system that has influenced the course of American history to this day. Grades 4-8, 40-minute video with Web access to comprehensive teacher materials. $34.99. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or e-mail eftsupport@cwf.org.


Stories Under African SkiesSTORIES UNDER AFRICAN SKIES
Stories in the African-American Tradition

Stories and music were essential to African culture and to the African American culture forcibly transplanted into the New World. This recording, with a special narration by "Roots" author Alex Haley, brings together the stories of these uprooted Africans and some of their music. $6.99. To order, call 1-800-761-8331 or e-mail eftsupport@cwf.org.