There is a long-emulated myth that slavery did not exist in the Northeast. This is simply not true. Although it was not used as commonly for the plantation-type work depicted in the cultural image of a slaveholding south, many northerners of all social classes and occupations held enslaved people and indentured servants. Slavery in the north contrasted sharply with the system in the south due to the close physical proximity of the enslaved to their enslavers in the North.
Students will:
- Infer some of the social-emotional repercussions of being an enslaved African in New England
- Explain the reasons why all free citizens participated and helped to sustain the system of Black slavery in the Northeast.
- Draw personal connections to the material to help better understand the social, political, economic, regional contexts.
- Draw inferences from primary sources such as population map, articles, etc.
- Correctly read and interpret primary sources such as reading a map using the key.
- Sort primary and secondary sources based on their use and evidence to explain why items were categorized as such.