Let My People Go
When dealing with blacks in America there are three things that must be kept in mind. First, only a handful were immigrants. The vast majority were abducted from their homes and forced to work under threat of death. Second, as slaves they were stripped of their original identity and kept in ignorance for centuries. Third, they were and are a minority no larger than slightly more than 12 percent of the total population. Their history is unique among Americans.
Read more in Access to English: Social Studies, pp. 386-393. Then do the tasks in the textbook and on this website.
Going Further
Web resources
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Digital story: Slavery and indentured servitude
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Slavery - Crash Course US History #13
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Slavery and the making of America (PBS)
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Civil Rights and the 1950s: Crash Course US History #39
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Civil Rights in America
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Audio: Race and the United States (BBC)
(bbc.co. uk) Various "Letters from America" by the legendary correspondent Alistair Cooke.