Experiencing Slavery and Imagining Freedom
Students:
-Read a slave’s account of his or her life as a slave.
-Read the Emancipation Proclamation.
-Write “first-person” accounts of what that person’s life might have been like after the Emancipation Proclamation.
More about this lesson plan:
Materials Needed: Computer with Internet access (optional), Slave Accounts or print versions of similar Accounts, A print or an online copy of The Emancipation Proclamation
Author: Linda Starr
Source: © Education World
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