Alabama Social Studies SS24.6.6c
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.
Describe how enslaved people and abolitionists sought to oppose slavery in colonial America.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students describe how enslaved people opposed slavery by escaping, slowing forced labor, or petitioning for freedom. They explain how opponents of slavery, including some Quakers, used petitions and public arguments to seek change.
What Mastery Looks Like
- Given a colonial escape notice and an antislavery petition, a student can identify who acted and what each person wanted. They can explain why opposing slavery carried different risks for enslaved people and free petitioners.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may think resistance meant only rebellion, missing escapes, work slowdowns, and freedom petitions. They may assume all colonists opposed slavery or overlook the actions enslaved people took themselves.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name one action an enslaved person took and one action an antislavery petitioner took in colonial America. Explain what each hoped to change.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs excerpts from the 1688 Germantown petition and a colonial escape notice; have them circle evidence of opposition to slavery.
Ask students to write two sentences comparing the risks of escaping with the risks of signing an antislavery petition.
Play a card match with escape, freedom petition, and antislavery petition cards, plus cards naming who used each approach.
Open a colonial escape notice on Freedom on the Move; ask what the notice reveals about the person who escaped.
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