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Curated OER

Taking Up Arms and the Challenge of Slavery in the Revolutionary Era

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students examine a series of documents which discuss the contradiction in the Americans' rhetoric about slavery. They act as members of designated Committees of Correspondence in the five different colonies, communicating their...
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PBS

Africans in America: Interior of a Slave Ship

For Students 9th - 10th
This site describes how slaves were packed in the ships with barely enough room to sit or move, to maximize capacity.
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Khan Academy

Khan Academy: Us History: 1844 1877: The Slave Economy

For Students 9th - 10th
The South relied on slavery heavily for economic prosperity and used wealth as a way to justify enslavement practices.