Black Emancipators of the Nineteenth Century
Beryl Bailey and Marcella Flake
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Lesson Plan 3
Objective
Students will be able to participate in guided silent and oral reading. Students will be able to define and discuss emancipation, revolt, oration, free papers, black Codes, Emancipation Proclamation, and the Civil War.
Materials
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1. Play-Emancipation Act 3
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2. dictionary or unit glossary
Procedures
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1. Students will define, through the use of a dictionary or the unit glossary, aforementioned terms.
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2. Students will read Act 3 silently.
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3. Students will be assigned various parts of the play.
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4. Students will read the play orally.
Results
Students will be able to explore the notion of send emancipation and body emancipation. Students will learn that some black emancipators fought for freedom by revolt, by escaping to freedom, while others used orations as a tool.
Students will discuss the dynamics of why a white slave master did not want a slave to learn how to read or write. Students will be able to discuss the reasons why slavery was abolished.
