Warm Up:
Whose names do you think are written on
this memorial? Why?
Today’s Questions:
What was life like for an enslaved
African on a southern
plantation?
Agenda:
1. Notes/discussion: slave life
2. Reader’s theater: Underground Railroad
3. Underground Railroad Storyboard
Before the Civil War, the majority of slaved worked on
__________ in the Deep South.
Slave auctions
Enslaved Africans were viewed as ____________.
At slave auctions, Africans were ___________ and
__________to slave owners.
Many families were ________ _________ on the
auction block.
Description of a slave auction:
“On a signal given, at the beat of a drum, the
buyers rush at once into the yard where the
slaves are confined, and make choice of that
parcel they like best. In this
manner…relations and friends are
separated, most of them never to see each
other again.”
--Olaudah Equiano
Living conditions
Slaves were treated differently depending on
__________ they lived and _________ their master
was.
Many were treated like farm animals or
equipment, rarely as ___________.
Enslaved Africans were usually given very little
__________, ___________, and shelter to survive—
just enough to survive and continue working.
How were slaves treated?
"[M]y own treatment . . . was very similar to that
of the other slave children…I had no bed…I
would] sleep on the cold, damp, clay floor, with
my head in [a sack for carrying corn] and feet
out…old and young, male and female, married
and single, drop down side by side, on one
common bed,—the cold, damp floor,—each
covering himself or herself with their
miserable blankets.”
--Frederick Douglass
How were slaves treated?
“They took and gave him 100
lashes with the cat of ninetynine tails…His back was
somethin awful, but they put
him in the field to work
while the blood was still
runnin’”
“Dey buried him alive!”
-Slaves on the Whitney
Plantation
Runaway slaves
Slaves often planned ___________ and escapes.
If caught, a slave could be beaten, even
____________.
Running away was dangerous: ________ ________
were always on the lookout for runaway
slaves.
Culture
When Enslaved Africans were taken to
America, they brought with them their
___________.
Enslaved Africans combined____________
traditions with the new traditions they
learned in America.
Religion, music, and family helped slaves cope
with the __________ conditions of slavery.
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Reader’s Theater:
1. Who is Harriet Tubman?
2. What did she do?
3. What is the Underground Railroad?
4. What dangers might slaves encounter on the
Underground Railroad?
With your table group:
List the 5 most important events that happened in your
reader’s theater. List them in chronological order (what
happened first, second, third, last)
Storyboard:
1. Divide page 105 into 8 sections.
2. Create a storyboard to show what happened first, second,
and last in the reader’s theater.
3. Write a caption to go with each picture!
What is the stage of the triangular trade
in which Africans are taken on ships to
America?
Who led Africans in a revolt on the
Amistad?
What happened to the Africans aboard
the Amistad when they reached New
York?
What is the Underground Railroad?
What did slaves bring with them from
Africa?
Why was music important to Enslaved
Africans?
Who invented the cotton gin?
What effect did the cotton gin have on
the slave population of the south?
Before the Civil War, the _______ was
becoming more industrialized and the
_______was becoming more
dependent on slavery to run
plantations.
Name 2 reasons why people in the
United States began moving west.
Who invented the steamboat?
People moved west because
_________ was becoming cheaper and
faster.