Category: 9-12
Staging a Conversation between Cudjo Lewis and Zora Neale Hurston
Freedom, Enslavement, Resistance
The Whippets Den: Homemade Museums as Expressions of Care and Continuity
The Power of Oral Storytelling in Teaching Tough History
The Middle Passage: Universally Shared if Not Individually Experienced
Students in Grade 11 and Grade 12 will read and compare three narratives of enslaved people–Venture Smith, Olaudah Equiano, and Kossula–and create projects based on their experiences in order to understand the details andcultural significances of the Middle Passage and its lasting impact.
AfricaTown: Food, Identity, and Resistance
Students in Grades 9 through 12 will learn about food traditions from West Africa and trace their evolution and connection to well-known, traditional Southern dishes in order to understand food as an expression of culture and the influence of West African and African American traditions on Southern food culture.
Africatown and the Satyricon
Students in Grade 10 and Grade 11 will make connections between the experience of Africatown’s founders and the depiction of Trimalchio in the Satyricon in order to understand the the resilience of emancipatedpeoples.
The Last Slave Ship: The Clotilda & AfricaTown
Students in Grades 10 through 12 will research the history of the Clotilda and Africatown in order to understand the ways in which different groups of people–specifically enslaved Africans and white Americans–experienced the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the period of American slavery.
The Power of “Born into Slavery”
Students in Grade 11 will learn about the particular experiences of life in West Africa, the Middle Passage, enslavement, and emancipation from the perspective of the Clotilda survivors in order to understand the humanity of the survivors, and all who were enslaved.