Slavery in the Americas is the sixth activity in the ECG Black History Month (BHM) series. Starting with:
Activity #1: The Original People
Activity #2: What Makes Black People Black
Activity #3: The Lebombo & Ishango Bones
Activity #4: Pre-Colonial Africa
Activity #5: The African Diaspora
This 20-Activity series provides supplemental learning for each school day of the month of February 2023. The first activity was FREE but each subsequent activity will be offered at a discount during BHM. Activities will be uploaded throughout the month of February. Come back each day for the latest activity.
The activities contain a vocabulary section to ensure students are comprehending the material, a reading section which includes much of the vocabulary and introduces students to the topic, a STEM section which requires students to scientifically think about the material and may include vocabulary, and a writing section which requires students to reflect on the material or answer the prompt using evidence or by making inferences.
The Brief Student Reading:
The American enslaved Africans, AKA the African prisoners of war (POWs), were trafficked to many destinations in the New World. These Africans were usually highly skilled and many were descendant from migrants to the African West Coast from the ancient cultures of the Nile Valley.
Later, these POWs would be further dispersed throughout the New World via being sold and/or forced migrated to new plantations as America expanded.
Women were raped and forced to have babies to increase the number of POWs the traffickers (slave owners) possessed. This created a lot of mixed-raced people.
Black men were also raped by male traffickers and tortured to subdue them and break their warrior spirit. This was called buck breaking. Most Africans never engaged in homosexuality until their unfortunate meeting with Europeans.
Black POWs were forbidden to read, legally marry, and protect their families. They had no rights and were abused daily.
End of Brief Student Reading!
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