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Family and Community
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Curriculum Lessons
What Survived the Crossing?
Unit 1
Gaspar Yanga and San Lorenzo de los Negros: The First Free Town in the Americas
Unit 1
How Do We Know What We Know? An Introduction to the Curriculum's Questions
Unit 1
The Experimental Body: Medical Exploitation Under Slavery
Unit 2
Quilombo dos Palmares: An African Kingdom in Brazil
Unit 3
The Engineered Divide: Colorism & the Plantation Hierarchy
Unit 3
The Reality of the 'Closing' — The Second Middle Passage (1808–1815)
Unit 3.5
Freedom's Soldiers: African Americans and the Civil War
Unit 4
The Global Court: African and Caribbean Athletes and the Diaspora
Unit 5.5
African Americans as Americans: 400 Years of Presence, Contribution, and Cultural Innovation
Unit 6
The Tooth and the Statue: Belgium's Slow Reckoning
Unit 6
Matonge: A Neighborhood Built in Three Waves
Unit 6
Vietnam: Black Service, Black Resistance
Unit 6
Rhythms That Would Not Be Silenced: Samba, Bomba, and Cumbia
Unit 7
Liberia and Sierra Leone: Africa as Destination
Unit 7.5
Punished by Relocation: The Caribbean as Exile
Unit 7.5
Modern African Immigration: The Newest Diaspora
Unit 7.5
The Universities: Georgetown's 272, and the Limits of Apology
Unit 8.5
Human Collateral: Slavery's Direct Line Into Modern Banking
Unit 8.5
A Language No One Else Speaks: Garifuna Culture and the Fight for Land Today
Unit 9
Justice for a Million Cases: The Gacaca Courts and Their Limits
Unit 10
The Windrush Scandal: When Britain Turned on Its Own Citizens
Unit 10
Amadiume: Male Daughters and Female Husbands in Precolonial Igboland
Unit 11
Soca: A Sound Deliberately Built to Unite a Divided Island
Unit 11
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