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Plantation Life in the 1840s: A Slave's Description

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Abstract:: This lesson introduces students to a description of life on the plantation and the cultivation of cotton from the perspective of a slave. It focuses on the use of slave narratives made available by the Documenting the American South collection.

Subject:: Social Sciences
Grade Level:: Secondary
Collection:: LEARN NC Lesson Plans

Slave Songs

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Abstract:: This lesson plan allows students to learn more about the religious observances of slaves in the United States by presenting hymns from Slave Songs in the US digitized in the Documenting the American South Collection. This is a great lesson to introduce the intersection of religion and slavery in a US Social Sciences or African American Social Sciences class.

Subject:: Social Sciences
Grade Level:: Secondary
Collection:: LEARN NC Lesson Plans

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Who started the Civil War? Comparing Perspectives on the Causes of the War

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Abstract:: This lesson plans presents the account of Rose O'Neal Greenhow, a confederate spy during the Civil War. Students are encouraged to find confirming and disconfirming evidence of her perspective on what caused the Civil War by browsing the Documenting the American South Collection of digitized primary sources.

Subject:: Humanities, Social Sciences
Grade Level:: Secondary
Collection:: LEARN NC Lesson Plans

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