Post on 14-Dec-2015
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ESLA Sample Lesson14 August 2015Experiencing Slavery
Previous Night’s Reading: •justification of slavery from DeBow’s Review•Frederick Douglass anti-slavery resource
Focused free write (5 minutes) and discussion of readings (5 – 10 min.): “what is/was slavery?”
#1. What were these people thinking and feeling?
Slavery’s long impact - connecting it to the present.
How has slavery impact post-emancipation life? Who gets to say so?
Public Enemy, Can’t Truss It (released in 1991) Look here come the judge
Watch it here he come nowI can only guess what’s happenin’
Years ago he woulda beenthe ships captain
Gettin’ me bruised on a cruiseWhat I got to lose, lost all contact
Got me layin’ on my backRollin’ in my own leftover
When I roll over, I roll over in somebody else’s90 fuckin’ days on a slave ship
Count ‘em fallin’ off 2, 3, 4 hundred at a timeBlood in the wood and it’s mine