Warm Up:

What did enslaved Africans bring from Africa?

Today’s Questions:

What was life like for an enslaved African on a southern

plantation?

Agenda:

1. Notes/discussion: slave life

2. Reader’s theater: Underground Railroad

3. Underground Railroad Storyboard

Before the Civil War, the majority of slaved worked on __________ in the Deep South.

Slave auctions

Enslaved Africans were viewed as ____________. At slave auctions, Africans were ___________ and

__________to slave owners.  Many families were ________ _________ on the

auction block.

“On a signal given, at the beat of a drum, the buyers rush at once into the yard where the slaves are confined, and make choice of that

parcel they like best. In this manner…relations and friends are separated, most of

them never to see each other again.”

--Olaudah Equiano

Description of a slave auction:

Living conditions

Slaves were treated differently depending on __________ they lived and _________ their master was.

 Many were treated like farm animals or equipment,

rarely as ___________. Enslaved Africans were usually given very little

__________, ___________, and shelter to survive—just enough to survive and continue working.

How were slaves treated?

"[M]y own treatment . . . was very similar to that of the other slave children…I had no bed…I would] sleep on the cold, damp, clay floor, with my head

in [a sack for carrying corn] and feet out…old and young, male and female, married and single, drop down side by side, on one common bed,—the cold, damp floor,—each covering himself or

herself with their miserable blankets.”

--Frederick Douglass

Runaway slaves

Slaves often planned ___________ and escapes.  If caught, a slave could be beaten, even

____________. Running away was dangerous: ________ ________

were always on the lookout for runaway slaves.

Culture

When Enslaved Africans were taken to America, they brought with them their ___________.

 Enslaved Africans combined____________

traditions with the new traditions they learned in America.

Religion, music, and family helped slaves cope with the __________ conditions of slavery.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veiJLhXdwn8

Reader’s Theater:

1. Who is Harriet Tubman?

2. What did she do?

3. What is the Underground Railroad?

4. What dangers might slaves encounter on the Underground Railroad?

What is the stage of the triangular trade in which Africans are taken on ships to America?

Who led Africans in a revolt on the Amistad?

What happened to the Africans aboard the Amistad when they reached New York?

What is the Underground Railroad?

What did slaves bring with them from Africa?

Why was music important to Enslaved Africans?

Who invented the cotton gin?

What effect did the cotton gin have on the slave population of the south?

Before the Civil War, the _______ was becoming more industrialized and the _______was becoming more dependent on

slavery to run plantations.

Name 2 reasons why people in the United States began moving west.

Who invented the steamboat?

People moved west because _________ was becoming cheaper and faster.