Black history: it's yours.

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• mavo, vwo
• Leerjaar 3

What do you know about slavery?

Lesson 1

What is a 'slave'?

What is a 'plantation'?

What does 'Transatlantic' mean?

Our project

Let's take a look at the hand-out. 

Transatlantic Slavetrade

Answer these questions after watching the video

1. Why did Europeans start with the Transatlantic slavetrade?

2. What was the proces of getting from Africa to America like for the African slaves? 

Make notes during the video. Write down key words. 

Get on board a slave ship

Lesson 2

  Last time

1. Why did Europeans start with the Transatlantic slave trade?

2. What was the proces of getting from Africa to America like for the African slaves? 

Points of no return

across the Atlantic

a two-to-three month journey

disease

malnourishment

feces, urine, vomit

corpses

shackles

no room to stand

SLAVES had a terrible time. 

One man, after being flogged every day in desperation decided to jump overboard. He was saved by a passing native canoe and when asked once back on board his ship if he had not feared being eaten by sharks, he replied ‘expected to be, but I preferred that to life on this ship’. McTaggart then struck the man’s head with a tub of water left for the women slaves to wash their hands. ‘If you want drowning, I’ll drown you myself!

                                                                                                    So did most of the CREW MEMBERS.

[We conceal] ye death of ye Sailors from ye Negros by throwing them overboard in ye night, less it might give them a temptation to rise upon us, seeing us so much weaken by ye death of 8, & most of ye rest sick but myself, we now being but 12 in all, that were left.

[the captain] ordered [a crew member] to be put in irons and held on the poop deck with no shade ’but the heavens’ for the duration of the sailing to Barbados which would have taken about 70 days.

This lesson

Passages from 'Hang a Thousand Trees With Ribbons' + study questions

Goals:

Gain a broad and indepth perspective on slavery through reading stories, not just historical facts. 

Develop your own opinion on the subject. 

Who was Frederick Douglass?

Lesson 3 and 4

Frederick Douglass (1818-1895)

Today's lesson

Goals: 

1. You will read/hear first-hand information about life on plantations in the early nineteenth century. 

2. You will know more about an important figure in US (slave) history.

3. You will be more aware of exactly how inhumane Black people were treated by White slave owners. 

Life on the plantation

What did you see in the pictures?

Read. Feel. Remember. Inform. 

Read the passages taken from Frederick Douglass' "Narrative of the Life" on the hand-out and answer the study questions. 

MANDINGO: true or false?

lesson 5: part 2 of "Life on the plantation"

By the end of lesson 5: 

You will know what the term 'Mandingo' refers to. 

You can discuss whether Django Unchained was based on true events. 

You will know that history is not always "black and white". 

Current notion of 'Mandingo'

        or

Fun and games? 

Martial arts historian L.A. Jennings: 

"During Christmas, the plantation owner would host a large party where the slaves, for once, were able to have their fill of food and drink. Adams recalled that the master would instruct two of the slaves to wrestle each other, saying that "our sports and dances was big sport for the white folks." Mr. Adams went on to explain that the slaves not only fought each other, they fought white men, too. "en slav'ry time grown white boys woud come tuh play en wrassle wid de "Niggers" Sho' woud."

Life after slavery: lesson 6

popular culture

What belongs to Black culture, these days?

Are black and white equal these days?

1. Yes, in all aspects
2. Yes, in some aspects
3. Barely
4. I don't care enough to have an opinion

Which prejudices come from the era of slavery?

Kanye West

"When you hear about slavery for 400 years ... For 400 years? That sounds like a choice.

"You were there for 400 years and it's all of y'all. It's like we're mentally imprisoned."