Topic: Slavery
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Thomas Jefferson’s World: Movie Guide for Middle and High School Classrooms (I)
A resource guide for designed for middle and high school classrooms, created to accompany the film THOMAS JEFFERSON’S WORLD...Lesson Plan
Thomas Jefferson’s World: Movie Guide for Middle and High School Classrooms (II)
A resource guide for designed for middle and high school classrooms, created to accompany the film THOMAS JEFFERSON’S WORLD...
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To Be Sold
Colonial newspapers frequently published advertisements announcing slave auctions. The enslaved people mentioned in this advertisement were captured on the west coast of Africa, a region that provided a significant proportion...
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To the British Settlements in America upon Slave-keeping
In this 1773 pamphlet, Benjamin Rush of Philadelphia condemned slavery as morally wrong. He also insisted that the continued existence of slavery endangered the liberty and prosperity of white people....
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Tobacco Houses
This print shows how tobacco was produced and marketed. The leaves were picked, sorted, dried, placed in barrels, and then inspected and sold at a public warehouse. On large plantations...
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Tobacco Label
Tobacco labels appeared on packages of tobacco or snuff. Within a decade of Virginia’s founding, tobacco was the colony’s major export. This label reflects stereotypes about the enslaved African laborers...Lesson Plan
We’ve Totally Been Here – A look at Five Visitors to Monticello Throughout Five Different Time Periods in American History
Lesson Overview: This lesson looks at visitors to Monticello during five different time periods throughout Thomas Jefferson’s life. The lesson gives students an idea of travel to Monticello, life at...
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Weekly Food Ration for an Enslaved Person at Monticello
Display approximating the ration of food (cornmeal, fish, and pork) given to each adult enslaved person per week. Jefferson provided the enslaved people at Monticello with some food, clothing, firewood,...
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Who Lived at Monticello (.pdf)
A two-page graphical representation of all the individuals, free and enslaved, who lived and worked at Monticello in the mid-1790s.
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