Lesson
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Students will explore the history of Blacks in America with an emphasis on why some organizations urge African Americans to journey back to their roots.
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This indicator was developed to encourage inquiry into the impact of the Transatlantic slave trade on Africa, Europe, and the Americas. This indicator promotes inquiry into the beginning of the Transatlantic slave trade, the ideological, economic, and political policies that upheld slavery, and how the slave trade led to the systematic oppression of Africans in the Atlantic World.
Grade(s): 6
Subject(s): Social Studies
Year: 2019
Video
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Episode
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From 1617 to the abolishment of the English slave trade in 1807, Bunce Island was the last glimpse of home for tens of thousands of enslaved Africans. Today, only ruins remain, as a testament to the...