TEACHING

TEACHING

HARD HISTORY

A FRAMEWORK FOR TEACHING AMERICAN SLAVERY

Teaching Hard History

A FRAMEWORK FOR TEACHING AMERICAN SLAVERY

TEACHING TOLERANCE

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History is not the past. It is the present. We carry our history with us. We are our history.

--james baldwin, "black english: a dishonest argument"

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T EACHING TOLERAN C E // T E AC H I NG H A R D H I STORY // A FRA ME WOR K FOR T E AC H I NG A ME R I CA N S L AV ERY

CONTENTS

Teaching Hard History

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Key Concepts and Summary Objectives

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Pre-Colonial and Colonial Era | to 1763

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The Revolutionary Period and the Constitution | 1763?1787 12

Slavery in the Early Republic | 1787-1807

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The Expansion of Slavery | 1807?1848

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The Sectional Crisis and Civil War | 1848?1877

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Framework | Appendix

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Acknowledgments

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