Section 1: What does it mean to be free? What does it mean to be a slave?
Children should learn:
- to draw on prior knowledge to construct a definition
- about the different meanings and applications of the word 'freedom'
- about the enduring use of slavery by many societies in the past and by some today
- that some societies today enslave people
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Section 2: African roots: where did most Black Americans originate?
Children should learn:
- about the differences between various indigenous African peoples
- to locate different groups of indigenous peoples on a map of Africa
- that environmental differences affect cultural differences
- to identify those indigenous peoples who were most at risk from slave traders
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Section 3: Slavery in Africa: a Portuguese turning point?
Children should learn:
- about the different ways of becoming a slave in Africa
- that in Africa, slavery was a temporary condition within specified time limits
- that European incursions changed the nature of African slavery
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Section 4: Sold into slavery: what was the reality of the Atlantic slave trade?
Children should learn:
- that the first Black Americans were not slaves
- that Africans were the essential workforce on the sugar and cotton plantations
- what the Triangular Trade was and how it worked
- about the experiences of Black Africans sold into slavery
- to evaluate a range of sources about slavery as part of an investigation, to select relevant information and to reach a conclusion
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Section 5: Freedom: how was it achieved?
Children should learn:
- about the different ways in which slaves could, before 1865, obtain their freedom
- that individuals played a key role in the ending of slavery
- to select and use relevant information to support an argument
- about the steps by which the USA became divided into a slave-owning south and a slave-free north
- to examine and explain the causes of the American Civil War and that different people fought for different reasons
- to use evidence to reach conclusions, and appreciate their tentative nature
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Section 6: From emancipation to segregation: how free were black people?
Children should learn:
- about the ways in which the American constitution and state law affected black people
- to assess how aspects of black peoples' lives changed after emancipation
- how the attitudes and actions of white people differed towards black people after emancipation
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Section 7: From segregation to civil rights: did the Civil Rights movement bring freedom for black people?
Children should learn:
- what civil rights are
- how black people were treated within American society in the 1950s and 1960s
- to account for the different approaches used by individuals to obtain their civil rights
- that Malcolm X and Martin Luther King became leaders in black peoples' struggle for civil rights and that they advocated different strategies for obtaining these rights
- to use sources of information as evidence to support a particular view
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