Séquence 2- From slavery to Civil Rights Act- séances 1&2

Séquence 2: From Slavery to Civil Rights Act

Séances 1 &2

NB: toutes les activités ou exercices demandés doivent être préparés sur une feuille. Le travail devra être présenté à la rentrée et pourra être ramassé et noté. 

Notions:

- locations & forms of power

- notion of progress

- myths and heroes

                    
 Séance 1: Slavery and the American Civil War. A few facts.

A slave ad.

Triangular trade 

Triangular trade:

It is important to note that the triangle trade was not an “official” or rigid system of trade, but instead a name that has been given to this triangular route of trade that existed between these three places across the Atlantic. Two main patterns existed:

N°1:

• Traders set out from European ports towards Africa's west coast. There they bought people in exchange for goods and loaded them into the ships.
• The voyage across the Atlantic, known as the Middle Passage, generally took 6 to 8 weeks. Once in the Americas those Africans who had survived the journey were off-loaded for sale and put to work as slaves.
• The ships then returned to Europe with goods such as sugar, coffee, tobacco, rice and later cotton, which had been produced by slave labour. 

N°2:

• New Englanders manufactured and shipped rum to the west coast of Africa in exchange for slaves.
• The slaves were taken on the “Middle Passage” to the West Indies where they were sold for molasses and money.
• The molasses would be sent to New England to make rum and start the entire system of trade all over again. 

Slavery and Civil War: Activities

- Look at these two pages: answer the questions of sections 1, 2 and  3.

  

Séance 2: doc 1, "Never free..."  extract from Queen, A. Haley

ACTIVITY

- Read the following text:

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- Answer the questions in "words and meaning" below:
* for question 8, use probability with modals "may, might, must..."(p273 et 278 dans meeting point) and expressions like "it is likely that, it seems...+ wishes, dislikes, incapacity...
* for Q 9b, use link words expressing contrast and opposition
* for Q11, use causative structures ("faire faire" p269 meeting point) and structures related to obligation and prohibition.

- Relate to the notion of locations and forms of power:
=> What can you say about relationships between slaves and their owners?
=> Why do you think slavery lasted so long? Think of what was at stake for both categories, the forms of power that were operating.