Learning Goals
Students will be able to analyze maps, laws, advertisements, plantation records, and firsthand accounts to explain how trade, finance, forced labor, racial ideology, and coercive institutions interconnected to construct and sustain racial slavery.
Students will be able to evaluate cultural continuity, adaptation, community formation, everyday resistance, escape, rebellion, and abolition to explain how enslaved people exercised agency within and against systems of control.
Students will be able to construct and defend a nuanced historical argument about which structures most shaped racial slavery and how enslaved people challenged them using credible evidence, explicit reasoning, and fair consideration of alternative interpretations.
Students will be able to collaborate to create, critique, revise, and present a digital systems model showing relationships among slavery’s economic, political, legal, and racial structures and enslaved people’s resistance and cultural transformation.
Products
Evidence-Based Historical Argument on the Structures and Challenges of Racial Slavery
Each student delivers a revised written or oral Claim-Evidence-Reasoning argument identifying the structures most important to sustaining racial slavery and explaining how enslaved people challenged them, using evidence from maps, laws, advertisements, archival records, and firsthand accounts while addressing an alternative interpretation.
Architecture of Enslavement Multimedia Systems Exhibit
Teams create and publicly defend a revised infographic and multimedia systems model that uses maps and primary sources to show how slavery’s economic, political, legal, and racial structures reinforced one another and how enslaved people resisted, preserved culture, and built community.
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