Category: Social Studies
The Clotilda: Ship of Greed, Wealth and Enslavement
Students in Grade 8 will construct timelines about the history of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade and the Clotilda‘s voyage in order to understand the causes and effects of the slave trade and enslavement in the United States.
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.
Novel Study of Barracoon
Students in Grades 6 through 8 will read and analyze Barracoon by Zora Neale Hurston in order to understand the role of empathy in learning histories of marginalized people.
How did Yoruba cultural values influence the building of Africatown?
Students in Grade 2 will study Yoruba and West African cultural values in order to understand how Kossula’s cultural values helped him to survive enslavement and led to the creation of Africatown. (Note: This is Part 4 of a 4-lesson unit plan. See “What were the Yoruba cultural values and traditions that Kossula and his […]
Examining the Alabama Slave Codes from 1833 to 1865 and its impact on Black individuals and their culture
Students in Grade 4 will examine the Alabama Slave Codes in order to understand how they differently affected the lives of both enslavers and those enslaved–specifically the Clotilda Africans.
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.
Before They Were Enslaved
Students in Grade 6 and Grade 7 will study the ways in which African cultures, values, and innovations have contributed to the contemporary United States and other countries.