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Sample Collaborative Lesson Plan - 5th-grade Social Studies: The Middle Passage

Primary Source Excerpts

The Atlantic Slave Trade by Johannes Postma. Greenwood. (ISBN#: 031331862X) This book includes primary documents of the Atlantic slave trade.
(Note: Olaudah Equiano, pp. 105-110).

Excerpts
p. 23 - Most slaves were crammed…

Primary Source Documents

Document 1
Olaudah Equiano - captured into slavery

p. 105-106 - My father…
next page to some sleep…

p. 106 - The next day… one paragraph

p. 108 - From the time I left my own nation… seen in Africa.

Document 2
Mungo Park - Scottish explorer and medical doctor

p. 111 - All of these unfortunate beings… inland countries.

p. 116-117 - Our passage down the river ..to the end

Document 3
Samuel Ajayi Crowther - kidnapped slave

p. 119-120 - [At] Lagos, I was permitted… from the men

Document 5
Willem Bosman - European merchant

pp. 125-127 - Not a few in our country fondly… to the end.

Document 6
Olaudah Equiano - captured into slavery - The Middle Passage

p. 129-130 - The stench of the hold… preferring death to slavery.

Document 7
John Newton - Slave trader to abolitionist

p. 131-132 - The sailors must be exposed… is impractical.

p. 132-134 - Usually, about two-thirds of a cargo… intolerable anguish…

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