Teaching Enslavement in American History
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About this book

Teaching Enslavement in American History provides classroom teachers with the resources necessary to navigate one of the most difficult topics in any history course. This volume is the product of a collaboration between three university professors and a team of experienced middle and high school teachers. Its nine chapters include the context for topics like the middle passage, the Constitution's position on enslavement, African cultural retention, and resistance to enslavement. The resources include 18 lesson plans and dozens of short primary and secondary sources modeled on document-based questions and the inquiry design model.

Real teaching requires courage, a deep understanding of the complexity of the subject matter, and skillful use of primary sources. Rather than teaching students what to think, Teaching Enslavement in American History pushes students to learn how to think: empirical argumentation, source evaluation, understanding of change-over-time, and analysis of historical context. The lessons in this book ask students to read, analyze, and contextualize a variety of primary sources, to identify the limitations of these sources and to articulate historical contradiction where it occurs. At the heart of this book is the belief that historical consciousness leads to societal change. Teaching about enslavement is not merely about teaching a curriculum, it is about molding citizens who will lead our democracy in its journey to become a more perfect union.

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Yes, you can access Teaching Enslavement in American History by Chara Haeussler Bohan,H. Robert Baker,LaGarrett J. King, Caroline R. Pryor, Jason Stacy, Erik Alexander, Charlotte Johnson, James Mitchell, Caroline R. Pryor,Jason Stacy,Erik Alexander,Charlotte Johnson,James Mitchell in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Bildung & Bildung Allgemein. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Table of Contents
  3. List of Tables
  4. List of Illustrations
  5. Acknowledgements
  6. Introduction
  7. Chapter One Slavery in Colonial America
  8. Chapter Two The Middle Passage
  9. Chapter Three African Cultural Retention
  10. Chapter Four Slavery and the Constitution
  11. Chapter Five Slavery in the Early Republic, 1790–1833
  12. Chapter Six Enslavement and Resistance
  13. Chapter Seven Abolitionism
  14. Chapter Eight Slavery and the Coming of the Civil War, 1833–1860
  15. Chapter Nine Civil War and Emancipation
  16. Index