Civil+War+Fall+Agendas-Handouts

**Introduction - The Voyage Into American Slavery**: "The Slave Ship" Marcus Rediker talks about"The Slave Ship": [|C-span Video] || CT was at the forefront of many debates that touched on questions of race and equality in the years leading up to the American Civil War, many of which took place at Connecticut’s OSH. Old State House Prudence Crandall Primary Document Activity **19th Century Slavery and Abolition** [|American Antiquarian Society] (AAS) * “Effects of the Fugitive Slave Law”
 * Agendas || Assignments || PowerPoints & Handouts ||  ||
 * **December 2** - CREC
 * Enslavement in Africa - Wendy Nelson-Kauffman
 * The Middle Passage- Walter Woodward
 * Primary Source Activity: Jigsaw “The Slave Ship” || Reading: * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"The Slave Ship"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Soul by Soul"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"Uncle Tom's Cabin" || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Wendy Nelson-KauffmanEnslavement in Africa-
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[file:TST december 2 final.ppt]]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[file:Olaudah Equiano excerpt edited.docx]]-
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[file:resource list.docx]] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Walter WoodwardSemester Overview andThe Middle Passage
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿[[file:CREC PPT Slavery Session F1 PPT.ppt]]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[file:Enslaved People JIGSAW EXERCISE .doc]]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[file:CAPTAINS JIGSAW EXERCISE .doc]]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**December 4** - Mystic Seaport
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Seaport Tour & Amistad Tour
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Activities: Harpoon Throwing, Rope Making, Charles W. Morgan tour
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Teachers explore seaport
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Debrief led by Walter Woodward and Alan Marcus ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">December 16 - Connecticut Historical Society **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Amistad Incident; Slavery and Abolition in Connecticut **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Mystic Seaport Field Trip Debrief
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Preview content (Woodward)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Tour Making Connecticut exhibit (focus on slavery in CT from 1630 through the Amistad incident)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Amistad incident through primary documents (recreate the timeline of the Amistad incident using newspaper articles)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Pro-slavery/Anti-savery role-playing activity: create a persuasive argument || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"The Amistad Case" by Douglas O. Linder (2000)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[file:Lindner, Amistad Case .pdf]] || * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[file:Amistad Cinquez Lithograph.pdf]]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[file:Amistad New London Gazette.pdf]]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[file:Amistad Nsp Accts Opt.pdf]]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[file:Amistad Pro Docs.pdf]]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[file:Amistad Anti Docs.pdf]] || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">﻿ ||
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**January 6 - Connecticut Old State House**
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Prudence Crandall and the Black Law of 1833 including a hands-on primary source activity and a living history component with characters representing Ms. Crandall and her fierce opponent, Andrew T. Judson (OSH staff) || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">**January 6 agenda** (continued)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">CT Commission of Culture and Tourism film, “To All on Equal Terms.”
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discussion of Connecticut’s racial climate in the mid 1830s and Judson’s role in the Amistad trial.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Remembering the Amistad program. || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Race & Equality (Woodward)
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[file:OSH INTRO AND REVIEW.ppt]]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">[[file:Prudence Crandall documents.doc]] ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">January 20 - CREC **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Historical Context - [|Professor Manisha Sinha, UMass]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Primary Source Activity - Jim Moran & Amy Sopcak-Joseph (AAS) ||  || <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Documents used in the Primary Source Activity (listed below) are available at [|TeachUSHistory.org] a website developed by the American Antiquarian Society that contains primary source materials, lesson plans and background essays that examine key moments in American History on a variety of subjects.

[|Amazing Grace DVD]
 * Two Abolitionist Songs – “Antislavery Hymn” and “Song of the Abolitionist”
 * Excerpt from //Cotton is King//
 * // The Slave’s Friend - // Catherine Beecher opposes abolition
 * ”Excerpt from//Cannibals All!//
 * Excerpt from //Horrors of Slavery//
 * Boston Massacre image
 * Pro-Slavery letter by S. Trott - // The Slave’s Friend //
 * Pro-slavery letter from the //Cincinnati Post//
 * Excerpt from //Horrors of Slavery//
 * Two Abolitionist Songs – “Antislavery Hymn” and “Song of the Abolitionist” ||  ||
 * **<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">January 27 - CREC **
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Review of slavery
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Discussion and activity with Amistad and Amazing Grace
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Viewing and activity with "Roots"
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">Lesson design activity - creating lessons with the films and primary sources from previous sessions. || [|Amistad (1997) DVD]
 * [[file:Amistad-Amazing Grace Viewing Assignment 1-6-11.docx]]

Note to download Viewing Guide right click and save to your desktop before opening. That's quicker than opening it from the website then saving it. ||  ||   || Stowe Center CREC CREC //﻿// ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **March 3** -
 * Tour of Stowe House
 * In depth talk with HBSC Collections Manager, Beth Burgess
 * Teaching strategies for Uncle Tom's Cabin ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **March 10 -**
 * Presentation, Dr. Matthew Warshauer
 * Group discussion and use of primary sources ||  ||   ||   ||
 * **March 26 -**
 * Carol Berkin's - //Civil War Wives//