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Book of Negroes About This Guide GUIDE WRITERS Tracy Williams-Shreve Natasha Henry • Guide/episode introductions • Elementary-level activities/extensions • Historical context • Secondary-level activities/extensions Natasha Henry is an educator, historian, and curriculum consultant, specializing in the An experienced secondary teacher, Tracy Williams- development of learning materials that focus on the Shreve is currently Instructional Leader for Equity & African Diasporic experience. She is the author of Inclusive Schools for the Toronto District School Emancipation Day: Celebrating Freedom in Canada Board. She has taught at Humber College, George (June 2010); Talking About Freedom: Celebrating Brown and the Ontario Institute for Studies in Freedom in Canada (January 2012); and Early Education at the University of Toronto. Tracy is Societies: Africa, China, and Europe (2013). Natasha descended on her paternal side from African settlers also wrote The African Diaspora (2014) and African in rural Ontario in the early 1800s and an enslaved Canadian Firsts (2014) in the Sankofa Black woman in Maryland whose biological father owned Heritage Collection, which received the 2014 Gold her as chattel, and on her maternal side from a Medal Moonbeam Children's Award for Winnipeg family with Scottish and British origins. Multicultural Non-Fiction. Natasha has also written She is married to Brian, a descendent of Ontario’s several entries for the Canadian Encyclopedia on Underground Railroad settlement in North Buxton, African Canadian history. Natasha is currently an Ontario and has three wonderful children — Jesse, occasional elementary teacher with the Peel District Thomas and Samantha. School Board. Editor: Laraine Bone Reproduction rights for this Work are not governed by any license executed by CANCOPY or any other reprography collective. © 2015 Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. All rights reserved. Published by: CURIO.ca | CBC Learning P.O. Box 500, Station A Toronto, Ontario M5W 1E6 Web: www.curio.ca Table of Contents Introduction ................................................................................................................................. 1 Historical Context ..................................................................................................................................... 1 Curriculum Connections ........................................................................................................................... 2 Impact on Viewers .................................................................................................................................... 3 Content Warnings ..................................................................................................................................... 3 Previewing Activity: Lenses on the World ............................................................................................... 4 Extension: Experiments on Discrimination .............................................................................................. 6 Episode 1: Stolen ........................................................................................................................ 7 Summary ................................................................................................................................................... 7 Historical Context ..................................................................................................................................... 7 Key Terms ................................................................................................................................................. 8 SECONDARY Viewing Questions .............................................................................................................................. 9 Activity: The Long Walk .................................................................................................................. 11 Extension: Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder ....................................................................................... 11 Activity: In the Hull of a Ship ........................................................................................................... 11 Extension: Slave Ship Research ........................................................................................................ 12 Activity: Decolonizing Our Language .............................................................................................. 13 Research Project: Africa Prior to the Triangular Trade .................................................................... 13 ELEMENTARY Viewing Questions ............................................................................................................................ 14 Activity: Exploring African History ................................................................................................. 15 Reflection: Understanding Media ..................................................................................................... 16 Making Text-to-Series Connections .................................................................................................. 16 Episode 2: Owned ..................................................................................................................... 17 Summary ................................................................................................................................................. 17 Context .................................................................................................................................................... 17 Key Terms ............................................................................................................................................... 19 SECONDARY Viewing Questions ............................................................................................................................ 20 Activity: What is Race? .................................................................................................................... 22 Activity: Exploring Enslaved Narratives .......................................................................................... 23 Extension: Contemporary Fiction – Beloved .................................................................................... 24 ELEMENTARY Viewing Questions ............................................................................................................................ 25 Reflection: Understanding Media ..................................................................................................... 26 Activity: Exploring Canadian Slave Narratives ................................................................................ 26 Activity: Analyzing Canadian Slave Ads .......................................................................................... 27 Making Text-to-Series Connections .................................................................................................. 28 Episode 3 – Escape to Revolution .......................................................................................... 29 Summary ................................................................................................................................................. 29 Context .................................................................................................................................................... 29 Key Terms ............................................................................................................................................... 31 SECONDARY Viewing Questions ............................................................................................................................ 32 Activity: The Other Side of the Border? ........................................................................................... 34 Activity: A Girl Like Me – Internalizing Racism ............................................................................. 35 ELEMENTARY Viewing Questions ............................................................................................................................ 36 Reflection: Understanding Media ..................................................................................................... 38 Activity: Exploring the Book of Negroes ......................................................................................... 38 Making Text-to-Series Connections .................................................................................................. 39 Episode 4 – Book of Negroes .................................................................................................. 40 Summary ................................................................................................................................................. 40 Context .................................................................................................................................................... 40 Key Terms ............................................................................................................................................... 42 SECONDARY Viewing Questions ............................................................................................................................ 43 Discussion: From Slave Patrols to Profiling ..................................................................................... 45 Activity: The Book of Negroes – Creating
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