Theme
Slavery
Explore this theme across 16 historical figures, 54 heritage sites,100 lessons, 0 cultural references, and 1 journeys.
Historical Figures
Cudjo Lewis
1841–1935
Timothy Meaher
1812–1892
Abraham Lincoln
1809–1865
Biddy Mason
1818–1891
Elizabeth Freeman
1744–1829
John Hart Crenshaw
1797–1871
Francisco Menéndez
1700–1770
Free-Staters
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Border Ruffians
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John Brown
1800–1859
John Brown (Providence Merchant)
1736–1803
Stephen Bishop
1951–?
Dred Scott
1799–1858
Harriet Scott
1815–1876
Enslaved laborers
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United States Colored Troops (USCT)
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Heritage Sites
Africatown (Clotilda Landing)
Mobile, AL
Andersonville National Historic Site
Andersonville, GA
Antietam National Battlefield
Sharpsburg, MD
Appomattox Court House National Historical Park
Appomattox, VA
Biddy Mason Memorial Park
Los Angeles, CA
Cape Coast Castle
Cape Coast, N/A
Cedar Creek and Belle Grove National Historical Park
Middletown, VA
Colonel John Ashley House
Sheffield, MA
Colonial National Historical Park
Williamsburg, VA
Court Square Slave Market
Montgomery, Alabama
Crenshaw House (Old Slave House)
Equality, IL
Door of No Return, Ouidah
Ouidah, N/A
Forks of the Road Slave Market
Natchez, Mississippi
Fort Gibson Historic Site
Fort Gibson, OK
Fort Mose Historic State Park
St. Augustine, FL
Fort Scott National Historic Site
Fort Scott, KS
Fort Sumter and Fort Moultrie National Historical Park
Charleston, SC
Franklin and Armfield Office (Freedom House Museum)
Alexandria, Virginia
General Archive of the Indies / Casa de la Contratación
Seville, Spain
Harpers Ferry National Historical Park
Harpers Ferry, WV
Historic Stagville
Durham, NC
Igreja de São Domingos
Lisbon, Portugal
International Slavery Museum
Liverpool, N/A
John Brown House Museum
Providence, Rhode Island
John Dickinson Plantation
Dover, DE
John Rankin House
Ripley, OH
Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
Kennesaw, GA
Lakeport Plantation
Lake Village, AR
Linden Place (DeWolf Mansion)
Bristol, Rhode Island
Mammoth Cave National Park
Mammoth Cave, KY
Manassas National Battlefield Park
Manassas, VA
Memorial to Enslaved People (Plantation - Prosperity and Nightmare)
Lisbon, Portugal
Mercado de Escravos (Slave Market Museum)
Lagos, Portugal
Monocacy National Battlefield
Frederick, MD
Mémorial de l'Abolition de l'Esclavage
Nantes, France
National Slavery Monument (Nationaal Monument Slavernijverleden)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Old Cahawba Archaeological Park
Orrville, AL
Old Courthouse (Dred and Harriet Scott Case)
St. Louis, MO
Old Slave Mart Museum (Ryan's Mart)
Charleston, South Carolina
Praça do Comércio (Terreiro do Paço)
Lisbon, Portugal
President's House Site
Philadelphia, PA
President's Park (White House)
Washington, DC
Quinta do Relógio (Quinta de Monte Cristo)
Sintra, Portugal
San Juan National Historic Site
San Juan, PR
Seneca Village
New York, NY
Shiloh National Military Park
Shiloh, TN
Shockoe Bottom Slave Trading District (Lumpkin's Jail)
Richmond, Virginia
Sojourner Truth State Park (Sojourner Truth's Ulster County Homeland)
Kingston, NY
St. Louis Hotel Rotunda Slave Market
New Orleans, Louisiana
The Weeping Time — Ten Broeck Race Course
Savannah, Georgia
Vicksburg National Military Park
Vicksburg, MS
Virgin Islands National Park
St. John, VI
Wall Street Municipal Slave Market
New York, NY
Yates & Harrison Auction House, O'Donnell's Wharf
Baltimore, Maryland
Curriculum Lessons
Zera Yacob: A Rationalist Philosopher, Alone in a Cave
Unit 1
What Survived the Crossing?
Unit 1
How Do We Know What We Know? An Introduction to the Curriculum's Questions
Unit 1
Contact, Collapse, and a New Labor Force
Unit 1
The Kouroukan Fouga: Africa's Constitutional Charter
Unit 1
Women, Power & Leadership
Unit 1
The Maafa: Economics of Dehumanization
Unit 2
Barbados and the British 'Sugar Revolution'
Unit 2
The Code Noir: France's Distinct Legal Approach to Slavery
Unit 2
The Dutch Difference: Curacao's Trade and Suriname's Maroons
Unit 2
The Experimental Body: Medical Exploitation Under Slavery
Unit 2
Gender & Resistance: Women Who Refused
Unit 2
Maroon Sovereignty: Free Communities in the Americas
Unit 2
Slavery, Indigenous Territory & the Five Civilized Tribes
Unit 2
Brazil & the Largest African Diaspora in the Americas
Unit 2
Where the Trade Actually Went
Unit 2
Fighting for a Country That Denied Freedom: African Americans and the Revolutionary War
Unit 2
Resistance That Never Stopped: Rebellions & Omar Ibn Said
Unit 2
The Haitian Revolution: When Rebellion Won
Unit 3
Quilombo dos Palmares: An African Kingdom in Brazil
Unit 3
Somerset v Stewart: A Narrow Ruling, Widely Misunderstood
Unit 3
The Sons of Africa: Black Britons Argue Their Own Case
Unit 3
John Blanke: The Only Portrait We Have
Unit 3
Nanny of the Maroons: Legacy, Leadership, and Complication
Unit 3
The Logic of the 1808 Act — Who Really Wanted It Gone? (1800–1807)
Unit 3.5
The Compromise — Constitutional Complicity (1787–1789)
Unit 3.5
The Legacy — Cotton Kingdom & the Missouri Compromise (1815–1820)
Unit 3.5
The Reality of the 'Closing' — The Second Middle Passage (1808–1815)
Unit 3.5
Fear as Policy: How British Colonial Legislatures Reacted to Haiti
Unit 4
Fedon's Rebellion: Grenada's Attempt to Become 'Another Haiti'
Unit 4
The Political Convention & Public Voice (1820–1840)
Unit 4
The Debate That Shaped a Century: Douglass, Washington, Du Bois & the Question of Black Freedom
Unit 4
The Tirailleurs Senegalais: Africa's Soldiers in France's War
Unit 4
Freedom's Soldiers: African Americans and the Civil War
Unit 4
The Affranchis: How Color Divided the Revolution From Within
Unit 4
Black Reconstruction: The Congressmen, the Legislation, and the Collapse
Unit 4
Jose Maria Morelos: Mexico's Contested 'Pardo' Hero
Unit 4
Antonio Maceo: 'The Bronze Titan' of Cuban Independence
Unit 4
Haiti's Hidden Hand and the Soldiers Bolivar's Story Forgets
Unit 4
The General Strike & The End of Slavery (1861–1865)
Unit 4
Clandestine Infrastructure & Fugitivity (1830–1850)
Unit 4
The Black Church: Institution, Liberation & the HBCU Pipeline
Unit 4.5
Disenfranchisement, Jim Crow & the Red Summer
Unit 4.5
The 13th Amendment Loophole: Convict Leasing & the Re-Enslavement of Black America
Unit 4.5
Peonage and the Debt Trap: Slavery by Another Name
Unit 4.5
The Debt That Outlived Slavery Itself
Unit 5
Apprenticeship in Practice: 'But Another Name for Slavery'
Unit 5
The 1833 Act and Its Compromise
Unit 5
Third World Marxism & Black Radical Thought: Rodney, Fanon, and C.L.R. James
Unit 5
Blanqueamiento: Engineering a Whiter Nation
Unit 5
The Myth of Racial Democracy: Freyre, Vasconcelos, and the 'Cosmic Race'
Unit 5
French West Africa: A Referendum With One Real Choice, and the One Country That Chose Differently
Unit 5
From Slave Ships to Rubber Vines: One Continuous Extractive Logic
Unit 5.5
Muhammad Ali: Resistance, Religion, and Refusal
Unit 5.5
The Black Body as Contested Territory: An Introduction
Unit 5.5
African Americans as Americans: 400 Years of Presence, Contribution, and Cultural Innovation
Unit 6
Malcolm X & the Nation of Islam: Black Nationalism and Self-Defense
Unit 6
The White Normative Gaze and Its Shadows: Respectability, Authenticity, and the Politics of Black Identity
Unit 6
Why the Order Matters
Unit 6
Gradual Abolition: Free Womb Laws and the Patronato System
Unit 6
A Hemisphere-Wide Timeline: Same Institution, Wildly Different Endings
Unit 6
From Plantation to Algorithm: The Digital Life of Colorism
Unit 6
'A New System of Slavery': The Origins of Indian Indentureship
Unit 6
Dance as Liberation: Alvin Ailey & Dance Theater of Harlem
Unit 6.5
The Literary Diaspora: Black Pulitzer Prize Winners & the Canon They Built
Unit 6.5
Black Cinema: From Oscar Micheaux to Ava DuVernay
Unit 6.5
Health Equity and the Present Moment: When the Body Is Still the Battlefield
Unit 7
The Caribbean Connection: Haiti, Jamaica, and the Making of the African Diaspora
Unit 7
Reform or Abolition: The Carceral State and the Movement for Black Lives
Unit 7
Black Political Representation: From Reconstruction to the Senate Floor
Unit 7
Lusotropicalism and Its Limits: Race in Portugal Today
Unit 7
Reconstruction: America's First Multiracial Democracy
Unit 7
Obeah: Criminalized for Two Centuries, Practiced Anyway
Unit 7
December 2022: One of the Last Apologies in Europe
Unit 7.5
Running North: Black Canada and the Diaspora's Northern Arc
Unit 7.5
Punished by Relocation: The Caribbean as Exile
Unit 7.5
Seasoning: The Caribbean as Waystation
Unit 7.5
Not One Voyage: The Myth of the Settled Diaspora
Unit 7.5
Modern African Immigration: The Newest Diaspora
Unit 7.5
You Could Be From Anywhere: Genealogy and the Moving Diaspora
Unit 7.5
Zwarte Piet: Fifty Years of the Same Argument
Unit 7.5
Forty Acres: The Promise, the Theft, and the Template
Unit 8
The Ring as Refuge: Cuban Boxing After Maceo
Unit 8
Reparations: The Argument, the History, and the Debate
Unit 8
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
Cotton as Capital: Reading American Industrialization Through Slavery
Unit 8.5
Innovation Against the Odds: Scientists, Inventors and Engineers
Unit 9
A Shipwreck, Not a Slave Ship: Origins on Yurumein
Unit 9
Ideas That Changed the World: The Black Intellectual Tradition
Unit 10
Many Paths, One Community: Religious Diversity in Black America
Unit 10
Imagining Freedom: African Futurism and Afrofuturism
Unit 10
Writing Recognition Into Law: Colombia and Chile
Unit 10
Calypso: Three Centuries of Singing the News
Unit 11
Between Two Movements: Organizations Bridging Black and Latino America
Unit 11
The Ten-Point Plan: A Region Presents Its Case
Unit 12
Freedom Without Land: The Origins of Rio's Favelas
Unit 12
Europe's Unfinished Question
Unit 12
The Pattern This Course Has Been Tracing All Along
Unit 12
Barbados Becomes a Republic: The Unfinished Fight
Unit 12
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