ESLA Sample Lesson14 August 2015Experiencing Slavery

Previous Night’s Reading: •justification of slavery from DeBow’s Review•Frederick Douglass anti-slavery resource

Focused free write (5 minutes) and discussion of readings (5 – 10 min.): “what is/was slavery?”

#1. What were these people thinking and feeling?

#2 Were slaveowners “bad”?

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Slavery’s long impact - connecting it to the present.

How has slavery impact post-emancipation life? Who gets to say so?

Public Enemy, Can’t Truss It (released in 1991) Look here come the judge

Watch it here he come nowI can only guess what’s happenin’

Years ago he woulda beenthe ships captain

Gettin’ me bruised on a cruiseWhat I got to lose, lost all contact

Got me layin’ on my backRollin’ in my own leftover

When I roll over, I roll over in somebody else’s90 fuckin’ days on a slave ship

Count ‘em fallin’ off 2, 3, 4 hundred at a timeBlood in the wood and it’s mine

Reading: •justification of slavery from DeBow’s Review•Frederick Douglass narrative, or another anti-slavery resource[assessment: re-reading texts, interpretive ethics and making claims]