Black Emancipators of the Nineteenth Century
Beryl Bailey and Marcella Flake
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Lesson Plan 2
Objective
Students will be able to participate in guided silent and oral reading. Students will be able to discuss the system of slavery in Africa and compare it to the system of slavery in America. Students will also be able to discuss the content of Act 2.
Materials
Play-Emancipation Act 2
Procedures
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1. Students will read Act 2 silently.
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2. Parts will be assigned to various students.
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3. Students will read Act 2 orally.
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4. Students will discuss the content of Act 2.
Results
Students will learn that Africans sold other Africans into slavery. Students will learn that the system of slavery in the United States differed greatly from the system of slavery in Africa. Students will learn that the cruelties suffered by African-American slave was unknown to the slave in Africa.
Students will be able to verbalize the harshness of the middle passage. Students will be able to discuss the despair and anguish suffered by the kidnapped Africans on this voyage.
