A Portrait Gallery of Slavery and Freedom in America
The following exercise should be of interest to you in finding out and presenting a picture gallery of people and events connected with the slave trade and slavery in America. In this exercise we will concentrate on the freeing of slaves and what happened after the abolition of slavery in the USA. Copy the following worksheet on to your file and then make your own document to position the pictures - writing in the relevant information
Abolitionists and opponents of the Slave trade
Click on: http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/slavery.htm
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I) use the index and find one or two pictures that show the conditions of slave life. Transfer them to your own document. Write a heading for each picture
II) Find pictures of two abolitionists (people who campaigned against slavery.) Underneath write down a brief note on their lives – when they were born where they lived and why we remember them today. (perhaps chose one woman and one man?)
III) Use the index on the above site to find Harpur’s Ferry. Write down briefly what happened there. Then click on John Brown (or use: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/brown/timeline/index.html) – transfer his picture to your document and then write in brief noted details about his life and death
The Civil War and After
Use a ‘search engine’ (perhaps Britannica or Yahoo) to find a picture of Abraham Lincoln. Transfer the picture and write in brief details of his life and death.
If you do not wish to search on your own – click on
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/1/0,5716,114491+1+108307,00.html
This article has several references from which you can go on to find the above details
Try to find out about Lincoln’s death – find a picture of his murderer and where he was killed, giving brief details
If you do not wish to search on your own – click on
http://search.britannica.com/frm_redir.jsp?query=abraham+lincoln&redir=http://members.aol.com/RVSNorton/Lincoln2.html
Find out about the beginnings of the Ku Klux Klan and write in why they were formed – find a picture to show them in full dress and describe some of their actions.
If you do not wish to search on your own – click on
http://search.britannica.com/frm_redir.jsp?query=ku+klux+klan&redir=http://xroads.virginia.edu/~UG97/stone/klan.html Or
http://www.britannica.com/bcom/eb/article/6/0,5716,47396+1+46315,00.html