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How Did Kossula Cudjo Lewis and Other Africans Experience Captivity and the Middle Passage?

K-5
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Learning Objectives

  • Read and explain the main idea of a reading on the development of the slave trade in West Africa and the Middle Passage
  • Analyze text-based and visual primary sources and determine key details
  • Identify Yoruba values within primary sources by connecting values to a described experience.
  • Use evidence from multiple primary sources to illustrate how Kossula Cudjo Lewis and other Africans experienced captivity and the Middle Passage.

 

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Overview

Historians collect evidence. In this lesson, students will learn how prisoners were kept in West Africa before crossing the Atlantic Ocean by reading the text, reading a selection from Mr. Lewis, and carefully analyzing a primary source drawing of “slave factories." Students will collect evidence and then proceed to learn about the Middle Passage journey across the Atlantic by reading the text, carefully analyzing ship diagrams and descriptions, and reading a selection from Mr. Lewis. They will collect evidence to answer the mystery question: "How did Mr. Lewis and other Africans experience captivity and the Middle Passage?"

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