How Did Kossula Cudjo Lewis and the Clotilda Africans Use Their Values To Face the Conditions of Enslavement?
Mystery
Historians identify. In this lesson, students are provided context about the development of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade including an animation that will…
Overview
Historians identify. In this lesson, students are provided context about the development of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade including an animation that will help students see where enslaved Africans were brought in the Americas. Students will then examine primary source images and narratives from Mr. Lewis and Mary Prince in order to identify reasons to answer the mystery question: "How did Mr. Lewis and the Clotilda Africans use their values to face the conditions of enslavement?"
Grade Levels
- K-5
Learning Objectives
- Read and explain the main idea of a readings on the experiences of enslaved people.
- Analyze text-based primary sources and determine key details
- Identify Yoruba values within primary sources by connecting values to a described experience.
- Compare textbook explanations of enslavement with the primary source narratives and conclude why primary sources help illustrate the story of enslavement.