Alabama Social Studies SS24.6.6a
The Standard
- SS24.6.6
- Trace the economic and cultural interactions across continents and the colonies resulting from the triangular trade routes, including the forced migration of Africans through the transatlantic slave trade and experiences of the Middle Passage.
Compare and contrast the institution of slavery in different colonial regions.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students compare how enslaved people worked in New England, Middle, and Southern colonies. They explain how crops, farms, and towns shaped that work, while recognizing that slavery was forced labor in every region.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can compare enslaved work on a South Carolina rice plantation, a Pennsylvania farm, and in a Boston household. They can name a difference in the work and a shared condition, such as being denied freedom.
Common Misconceptions
- Some students think slavery existed only on Southern plantations. Others mistake household work in Northern towns for paid work or assume enslaved people did the same jobs in every colony.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Compare enslaved work on a South Carolina rice plantation and in a Boston household. Give one difference in the work and one way people in both places were denied freedom.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a region map and rice-field, farm, dock, and household cards; use a source sheet to place each where it fits.
Ask students to write: How did rice plantation work in South Carolina differ from household work in Boston, and what did enslaved people share?
Play claim check: teams mark 'Only Southern colonies had slavery' and 'All enslaved people worked in fields' false, then cite a source for each.
Bring a bag of rice and show a colonial Atlantic trade map; students trace how enslaved labor grew rice sold across the Atlantic.
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