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You can learn more about slavery and life on a plantation by exploring these books. Or visit our
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Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad,
Pamela Duncan Edwards |
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Follow the Drinking Gourd,
Jeanette Winter |
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If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad,
Ellen Levine |
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Life on a Plantation,
Bobbie Kalman |
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Minty: a Story of Young Harriet Tubman,
Alan Schroeder |
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Now Let Me Fly: The Story of a Slave Family,
Dolores Johnson |
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Pink and Say,
Patricia Polacco |
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Between the American Revolution and the end of the
Civil War, millions of Africans were brought to America as slaves.
Men, women, and children from the west coast of Africa were captured
and forced onto slave ships that sailed across the Atlantic Ocean
to North America.
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Slave woman processing rice. |
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During the long two-month trip, many became sick and died. Those
who survived were sold at auction to the highest bidder. Families were separated never to be reunited.
Many West Africans were sold to plantation owners who cultivated rice in the marshy lowlands of
South Carolina. Planters preferred West Africans because they were experienced rice farmers who could
make the plantations successful.
Slaves were treated as property. Some masters required slaves to wear tags that identified them when
they were away from the plantation. Thousands tried to escape to freedom over the secret routes known
as the Underground Railroad.
You can learn more about slave life and the Underground Railroad by
reading Barefoot: Escape on the Underground Railroad or Follow the
Drinking Gourd, and by trying out the activities below.
Read more about the Underground
Railroad
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Document Detective
Documents leave us clues to the past. Study a document to figure out what it was used for, and
what it can tell us about the past.
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PDF activity [307k] |
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Read Follow the Drinking Gourd
Discover one of the many ways that slaves shared information about escaping to freedom and
the dangers they faced on their journey by singing or listening to a song.
download
PDF activity [119k] |
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Using Rice Plantation Tools
Study pictures of rice plantation tools. How do you think the tools were used?
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PDF activity [256k] |
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