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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Pre Colonial Africa, 1872

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Africa showing the continent prior to the Berlin Conference of 1885, when the most powerful countries in Europe at the time convened to make their territorial claims on Africa and establish their colonial borders at the start of...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Pre Colonial Africa, 1858

For Students 9th - 10th
Map of Africa in 1858, prior to the extensive European colonization of the continent established at the Berlin Conference of 1885. This map shows the European possessions of the Cape Colony, Natal, and Orange River Free State, and the...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Pre Colonial Africa, 1870

For Students 9th - 10th
A physical and political map of Africa prior to the Berlin Conference of 1885, which established the European colonial territory claims on the continent. This map shows the African states of Morocco, Algiers (Algeria), Tripoli, Egypt,...
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Graphic
Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Colonial Africa, 1914

For Students 9th - 10th
A map of Africa in 1914, showing the presence of European powers, including British, French, German, Portuguese, Spanish, Italian, and Belgian possessions. Native states, major cities and major railways are also shown. This map reflects...
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Curated OER

Educational Technology Clearinghouse: Maps Etc: Political Colonial Africa, 1916

For Students 9th - 10th
A political map of the African continent in 1916, showing the European territorial claims established at the Berlin Conference in 1885. This map also shows the territorial enclaves of British Walfish Bay in German Southwest Africa,...
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Website
BBC

Bbc: Africa & Europe (1800 1914)

For Students 9th - 10th
Part of the BBC's "Story of Africa" series, this article covers 19th century exploration and colonization. Archived.
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Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Asians of Africa

For Students 9th - 10th
The Asian population of Africa is a small but significant minority. Whereas there have been Asians, primarily merchants, who lived on the east coast of Africa for hundreds, if not thousands, of years, a great influx of Asians came to...
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Unit Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Enslaved Peoples, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Two Spanish accounts of enslaved Indians in the Caribbean and enslaved Africans in Mexico and statements of the difficulty of maintaining slavery and the lurking threat of a slave revolt.
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Lesson Plan
Library of Virginia

Virginia Memory: Petition of Phillip Gowen

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This lesson explores the practice of indentured servitude in colonial Virginia. Students examine a petition by Phillip Gowen, an African American indentured servant, who asked the governor of Virginia to release him from servitude in 1675.
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Handout
Georgia Humanities Council and the University of Georgia Press.

New Georgia Encyclopedia: Atlantic Slave Trade to Savannah

For Students 9th - 10th
Encyclopedia article describing slavery in Colonial Georgia and the role that Savannah played in slave trade from 1755 to as late as 1858.
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Activity
PBS

Liberty: Chronicle of the Revolution: Diversity

For Students 9th - 10th
A brief look at the population increase in colonial America. Find out where all these immigrants came from and what they did in the colonies. From PBS.
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Website
Smithsonian Institution

Anacostia Community Museum: Still Cookin' by the Fireside

For Students 9th - 10th
This online presentation documents the role of the African American in food service from early colonial days through the 1940s. Primary source documents and photographs are included.
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Activity
Other

World Socialist Web Site: A Journey Through Africa's Civilizations

For Students 9th - 10th
From the World Socialist Web Site, this is a review of Harvard professor Henry Gates' book, "Wonders of the African World." It includes interesting details of Gates' attempts to piece together a view of precolonial African history. (4...
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Website
Independence Hall Association

U.s. History: Beginnings of Revolutionary Thinking: What Is the American?

For Students 5th - 8th
Even colonial America was a melting pot of people from far away. Read about the diversity of the population and why it had an effect on the possibility of rebellion and revolution.
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Website
British Library

British Library: Discovering Literature: Politics and Religion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
The Civil Wars and the Restoration of the monarchy, the Enlightenment or 'Age of Reason', and British colonialism: investigate the political and religious contexts of Restoration and 18th-century literature.
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Article
University of Cambridge

University of Cambridge: The First Black Female Poet?

For Students 9th - 10th
This article looks at a ballad, 'Bars Fight,' by 18th century African-American writer Lucy Terry. It considers the literary qualities of a ballad, and its historical role in society. It then goes on to consider why a Black slave might...
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Handout
Countries and Their Cultures

Countries and Their Cultures: Xhosa

For Students 9th - 10th
"Xhosa" is the generic name used for a number of related cultural groups in South Africa. Xhosa groups include the Mpondo, Bomvana, Bhaca, Thembu, Mpondomise, Xesibe, Mfengu, Hlubi, and the Xhosa proper. These Southern Nguni peoples, as...
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Lesson Plan
Louisiana Department of Education

Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: World Geography: Colonization of Africa

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Students develop and express claims through discussions and writing which examine the effect of colonization on African development.
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Unit Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Slave Trade, American Beginnings: 1492 1690

For Students 9th - 10th
A West African map and three accounts of the development of slave acquisition display the process and the brutality of the Atlantic slave trade.
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Article
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Religious Pluralism in the Middle Colonies

For Students 9th - 10th
Essay looks at the phenomenon of religious pluralism in the middle colonies. Author discusses religious sects in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, as well as African Americans and Native Americans.
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Website
BBC

Bbc: Slave Island New York's Hidden History

For Students 9th - 10th
A fascinating article that examines the discovery in 1991 of a large Negro burial ground in lower Manhatten. The African American cemetery was used during the 18th century. Archived.
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Handout
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: South Africa Timeline

For Students 9th - 10th
This timeline provides insight into the long history of struggle of the black population of South Africa. Follow the centuries of European wars and colonial rule and the policies that led to apartheid.
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Website
PBS

Wnet: Thirteen: Slavery & Making of America: The Slave Experience: Men, Women & Gender

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn about issues related to slave gender roles at this PBS series site that features illustrations and documents dating back to the Colonial, Antebellum, and Reconstruction periods in American history.
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: Book Pairings: "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe

For Students 9th - 10th
Selected (12) reading passages (grades 6-11) to pair with "Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe. In this classic novel, Okonkwo, a wealthy and respected member of the Umuofia clan, resists the forces of change brought to Africa by...