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SO 003 152 PUB DATE Activity Units; African American Studies; *Civil DOCUMENT RESUME ED 068 389 SO 003 152 TITLE United States History: From Community to Society. Unit Six: Civil War and Reconstruction. Grade Six. Project Social Studies. INSTITUTION Minnesota Univ., Minneapolis. Project Social Studies Curriculum Center. SPONS AGENCY Office of Education (DREW), Washington, D.C. PUB DATE 68 NOTE 245p. EDRS PRICE MF-$0.65 HC-$9.87 DESCRIPTORS Activity Units; African American Studies; *Civil War (United States); Concept Teaching; *Cross Cultural Studies; Curriculum Guides; Democratic Values; Elementary Grades; Grade 6; Human Dignity; Interdisciplinary Approach; Negro History; *Reconstruction Era; Resource Units; Skill Development; Slavery; *Social Studies Units; *United States History IDENTIFIERS *Project Social Studies ABSTRACT The cause of the Civil War is interpreted through cultural concepts in this sixth resource unit series designed for sixth grade students. Suggested activi;:y units expose students in some depth to inhumane conditions of slaves, enslavement problems, black exploitation, and revolts stemming from denial of basic humanity, the African background of slaves, and the role of the Negro in the Civil War. After military history is studied, students examine the Reconstruction period and the subsequent development of segregation. Selected readings of primary sources on the Civil War and Reconstruction, and study questions on the readings, are included. The format of the unit is described in Unit I SO 003 147, and detailed information on course objectives, teaching strategies, and program descriptions are provided in the teacher's guide SO 003 146. Other related documents are SO 003 148 through SO 003 153. (Author/SJM) as./7 U.S. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH. EDUCATION & WELFARE OFFICE OF EDUCATION THIS 00CUMENT HAS BEEN REPRO. DUCE° EXACTLY AS RECEIVED FROM THE PERSON OR ORGANIZATION ORIG INATING IT POINTS OF VIEW OR OPIN- IONS STATED DO NOT NECESSARILY REPRESENT OFFICIAL OFFICE OF EDU- CATION POSITION OR POLICY Grade Six Unit: Civil 1.7ar and Reconstruction SELECTED REP.DINGS ON THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION These materials were developed by the Project Social Studies Center of the University of Minnesota undera special grant from the U.S. Office of Education. (Project No. HS-045) 1968 FILMEDFROM BEST AVAILABLECOPY -1- AFRICA LS SEEN BY A SLAVE TRADER /Captain Theodore Canot wasa slave trader. He describes both a visit to the town of Timbo in West Africa anda visit to the Bager tribe.The account is from Brantz Meyer, ed., Captain Canot, or Twenty Years ofan African Slaver.This book was published in 1854./ I strolled repeatedly through the town.I became. familiar with its narrow streets, low houses, mudwalls... and mosques.I saw no fine bazaars, marketplacesor shops. The chief wants of life were supplied by peddlers.Platters, jars, and baskets of fruit, vegetables, and meat,were borne around twice or thrice daily. Horsemen dashed abouton beau- tiful steeds towards the fields in themorning, or came home at nightfall at a slower pace.I never saw man or woman bask lazily in the sun.Females were constantly busy over their cot- ton and spinning wheels when not engaged in householdoccupa- tions.../57ften have Iseen an elderly dame quietly crouched in her hovel at sunset reading the Koran. Norare the men of Timbo less thrifty.Their city wall is said to hem in about ten thousand individuals, representing all the social industries. They weave cotton, work in leather, fabricate iron fromthe bar, engage diligently in agriculture.../i:..'enever not labori- ously employed, it-hey7 devote themselves to reading andwrit- ing, of which they are excessively fond. I opened the chest /Which I had left earlier with the Bager people?.../71.5. my surprise...57found it nearly full of the merchandise I had placed in it.I shook the cask, and its weight seemed hardly diminished.I turned the spiggot, and lo! the rum trickled on my feet.... "Good!" said the chief, "it is all there, --is it not? We Bagers are neither Soosoos, Mandingoes, Foulahs, nor White- men, that the goods of a stranger are not safe in our towns! We work for a living; we want little; big ships nevercome to us, and we neither steal from our guests nor go to war to sell one another!". .. ryhe Bager chief7 senta crier through the town, informing the women that a white stranger would be their guest during the night.. AI less than halfan hour, my but was visited by most of the village dames and damsels.One brought a pint of rice; another some roots of cassava; another,a few spoonfuls of palm oil; another a bunch of peppers.. oldest lady of -2- the party made...the gift of a splendid fowl.... There was nothing peculiar in this exhibition of hospitality, on account of my nationality.It was the mere fulfillment ofa Bager law.../T he poorest black stranger wouldhave shared the rite as well as myself.I could not help thinking that I might have travelled from one end of Englandor America to the other, without meeting a Bager welcome. Indeed, itseemed somewhat questionable, whether it were better for theEnglish to civilize Africa, or for the Bagers to send missionariesto their brethren in Britain! Questions: 1. What can you tell about the town of Timbo from this description? 2. How did the people of Timbo seem to earn a living.? 3. Does the author consider the people of Timbo lazy? How do you know ? 4. What does the author tell you about the education of the per' of Timbo? 5. Does the author consider the Bager people dishonest ? How you know ? 6. Why did the author suggest that perhaps the Bager should send missionaries to Britain? 7. What did the Bager chief think of white men? How do you know? 3 -3- AN AFRICAN BOY ON A SLAVE SHIP /oustavus Vassawas born in Benin in Africa. He was kidnapped from his family when he was only elevenyears old.He was sold into slavery in Africa fora time.Later he was sold to traders and taken to a slave ship to go to America. In America he worked for a time as a slave ona Virginia plantation.Later he was sold to a Philadelphia merchant who lethim buy his freedom.In 1791, at the age of 46, he wrotean account of his life.The following selection is from this book, TheInteresting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano,or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself. / The first object which saluted my eyes when I arrivedon the coast was the sea, and a slave ship...617 was then riding at anchor, and waiting for its cargo.These filled with aston- ishment, which was soon connected with terror, when Iwas carried on board.I was immediately handled, and tossed up to see if I were sound, by some of the crew.. was...5ure7 that I had gotten into a world of bad spirits, and that theywere going to kill me.Their complexions too differing so much from ours, their long hair, and the language they spoke (which was very different from any I had ever heard), united to confirm me in this belief. ... ;When I looked round the ship too and saw. .. amultitude of black people of every description chained together,every one of their countenances eiptessins dejection and sorrow, Ino longer doubted of my fate.../0juite overpowered with horror and anguish, I fell motionless on the deck and fainted. When I recovered a litte, I found some black people aboutme, who...had brought me on board, and had been receiving their pay; they talked to me in order to cheer me, but all in vain.I asked them if I were not to be eaten by those white men with horrible looks, red faces, and long hair. They told me I was not...(Cille of thecrew brought me a small portion of spiritous liquor in a wine glass; ..Zt7eing afraid of him, I would not take it out of his hand. One of the blacks therefore took it from him and gave it to me...I took a little...which, instead of reviv- ing me, as they thought it would, threw me into the greatest consternation at the strange feeling it produced, having never tasted any such liquor before. Soon after this, the blacks who brought me on board went off, and left me abandoned to despair.I now saw myself deprived 4 of all chance of returning to my native country...I even wished for my former slavery in preference to my present situation... /IVwas filled with horrors of every kind, still heightened by my ignorance of what I was to undergo. ...I was soon put down under the decks, and there I received such a salutation in my nostrils as I had never experienced in my life.../Filth the loathsomeness of the stench and crying to- gether, I became so sick and low that I was not able to eat, nor had I the least desire to taste anything. I now wished for the last friend, death, to relieve me. .. Clgvo of the white men offered me eatables...(67i my refusing to eat, one of them held me fast by the hands, and laid me across, I think, the windlass, and tied my feet, while the other flogged me severely. I had never experienced anything of this kind before.. naturally feared.../he ocean7the first time I saw it.. /iVevertheless, could I have got over the nettings, I would have jumped over the side, but I could not.. /B7esides, the crew used to watch us very closely who were not chained down to the decks, lest we should leap into the water. ..I have seen some of these poor African prisoners most severely cut for attempting to do so, and hourly whipped for not eating.
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