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.
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What were the Yoruba cultural values and traditions that Kossula and his community members learned as children?
Students in Grade 2 will study Yourba 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 2 of a 4-lesson unit plan. See How did Yoruba cultural values influence the building of Africatown? from Laurie […]