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Salem Maritime National Historic Site

Enslaved Women & Revolutionary Resistance

• Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students use primary sources and historical knowledge to explain how enslaved women resisted slavery in the Revolutionary Era.

Who were the enslaved people in Salem?

• Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students analyze two primary source documents to learn about the lives and work of enslaved people in Salem and Essex County. Enslaved people mentioned in these documents were connected to Salem merchant, Richard Derby.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

What can we learn about the lives of enslaved people from primary sources?

• Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Students examine primary and secondary sources, including two short films, to explore the life of an enslaved woman in Salem. The essential question asks students to consider what we can learn about the history of slavery from primary sources.

Discover American Life & Labor at Chicora Wood: A Lightning Lesson from Teaching with Historic Places

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Chicora Wood was a rice plantation where hundreds of enslaved people lived and worked, from the 1730s until the Civil War. Enslaved Africans and their descendants cleared woods, cultivated and harvested rice, and constructed homes for their enslavers, the Allston family.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

Black Resistance through Election Day

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

In this lesson, students analyze primary sources to learn about the history of Black Election Day and the ways enslaved people resisted their enslavement in Massachusetts.

Natchez Trace Parkway

Read with a Ranger Two Friends: Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Lower Elementary: Pre-Kindergarten through Second Grade

This program illustrates how a woman and a former enslaved person worked towards changing society. It ties women and enslaved people’s roles in the formation and continuation of the Natchez Trace.

Slavery in the American South

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

What was life and work like for enslaved people on Southern plantations?

Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park

Grade 3-8 Harriet Tubman, Brave Woman or Just Plain Crazy?

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

To better understand Harriet Tubman's decisions in the larger context of the institution of slavery. What led Tubman to escape slavery and to return to rescue her family and friends? What factors led other enslaved people to remain in their conditions? Was Harriet Tubman's decision a product of personal courage, her situation as an enslaved woman facing sale, or a grave risk?

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

Quest for Omitted History: Part 2

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In part 2 of this 3-part lesson plan, students engage with sources that focus on the life of an enslaved and later freed Salem man of African descent.

Ulysses S Grant National Historic Site

Exploring the History of Slavery in St. Louis

• Type: Distance Learning
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

This Distance Learning Program aims to provide an introduction to the history of slavery in St. Louis. Geared for students in grades 3 through 5, the program examines what life was like for enslaved Missourians and highlights the stories of six enslaved African Americans from St. Louis who went on to become nationally famous for their efforts to end slavery and promote racial equality in the United States.

Antietam National Battlefield

Freedom at Antietam

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students will read and evaluate primary and secondary resources to learn about the impact Lincoln's issuance of the Emancipation Proclamation had on African-Americans both enslaved and free and on white Americans.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

How did different people shape the American Revolution?

• Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities ... Teacher Reference Materials
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

Students examine two primary source documents connected to Salem merchant, Richard Derby and consider how white colonists and enslaved Africans experienced the ideals of the American Revolution.

Booker T Washington National Monument

War on the Home Front: Post Visit Activities

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The Civil War and its outcomes were life-changing events for all the people, both free and enslaved, who were associated with the Burroughs Plantation from 1850 – 1865.

Booker T Washington National Monument

War on the Home Front: Civil War Reading Passage with Graphic Organizer

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

The Civil War and its outcomes were life-changing events for all the people, both free and enslaved, who were associated with the Burroughs Plantation from 1850 – 1865. Students will learn about: •Life on a piedmont Virginia, slaveholding tobacco farm •National debate on slavery/Differences between North and South •Why the war was fought •How the enslaved and their owners reacted to the war •How each group was affected after the war

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

Slavery & the Declaration of Independence

• Type: Primary Sources ... Student Activities
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

The first printing of the Declaration of Independence in Salem appeared next to advertisements for escaped and for sale enslaved people. Students use evidence from the document and historical knowledge to explore the meaning of freedom.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

Freedom for All? (High School)

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: High School: Ninth Grade through Twelfth Grade

In this lesson, high school students analyze primary sources to learn about the lives of two formerly enslaved people who were part of the first generation of freed people in Massachusetts.

Salem Maritime National Historic Site

Quest for Omitted History: Part 3

• Type: Lesson Plan
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

In part 3 of this 3-part lesson plan, this assessment will gauge students’ ability in contextualizing the sources. Students must use what they learned to make inferences about an enslaved person.

First State National Historical Park

Politics and Plantation

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

Explore the life of John Dickinson and the people whom he interacted with (tenants, enslaved individuals, tradesmen, merchants) by utilizing the mansion, outbuildings and primary resources. This program takes place at the John Dickinson Plantation.

First State National Historical Park

Flight to Freedom on the Underground Railroad: Emeline’s Journey

• Type: Field Trips
• Grade Levels: Middle School: Sixth Grade through Eighth Grade

An interactive overview of slavery and abolition in Delaware told through the compelling story of enslaved Emeline Hawkins and her family, and their escape to freedom on the Underground Railroad. This program takes place at the New Castle Court House Museum.

Gateway Arch National Park

Dred Scott Traveling Trunk

• Type: Traveling Trunk
• Grade Levels: Upper Elementary: Third Grade through Fifth Grade

One of the most important cases ever tried in the United States concerning slavery took place at the St. Louis courthouse. This traveling trunk introduces students to enslaved couple, Dred and Harriet Scott, and their fight for freedom in the 1840s and 1850s.