Alabama Social Studies SS24.8.13a
The Standard
- SS24.8.13
- Analyze the economic, political, and social effects of the transatlantic slave trade on African societies and American colonies.
Describe the conditions and treatment of enslaved Africans during the Middle Passage and in the Americas.
2024 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies
Teacher's field guide
What This Standard Means
What Students Need to Do
- Students describe the crowding, disease, limited food and water, and violence people faced during forced Atlantic crossings. They explain how enslaved people in the Americas faced forced labor, punishment, and family separation, while also resisting and sustaining community.
What Mastery Looks Like
- A student can use a ship diagram or firsthand account to identify two conditions aboard a slave ship and explain their effects. They can use a testimony or sale notice to describe treatment after arrival.
Common Misconceptions
- Students may mistake the crossing for voluntary migration or assume every ship landed in what is now the United States. They may picture only field labor and miss domestic labor, family separation, and resistance.
How to Assess It
- Exit ticket: Name two conditions during the forced Atlantic crossing and two ways enslaved people were treated after arrival. Support one answer with a detail from a source used in class.
Lesson moves
Ways to Teach It
Give pairs a blank Atlantic map and evidence cards; have them trace a forced voyage and place each card where its event happened.
Read an excerpt from Olaudah Equiano's account and ask, "Which details show the crossing was forced, and how were people treated?"
Give pairs six evidence cards to sort into shipboard conditions or treatment after arrival; have them explain one tricky card.
Show a Library of Congress digitized slave sale notice; ask what its wording reveals about treating people as property.
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