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THEME: Culture, Dignity and Identity

CONCEPT: Africa, Us and the World

African Americans in early America: Contributions and challenges in the development of the Atlantic world

CONTENT TOPIC: Investigating and researching contributions and challenges faced by Africans and African Americans in the development of the Atlantic world through fiction and nonfiction textsGuiding Essential Questions:

I) How do culture and identity influence who we are?II) How do time, culture and history influence works of art and/or the advancement of science and technology?III) What can I do to positively impact my community?

Unit Title Worlds Meet: Conflict, Challenges and Change in Early Colonial America The Meaning of Liberty Challenges of Expansion The Promise of

Reconstruction

African and African American Studies Connections

Quarter 1—Unit 1Africans and African influence during the Spanish conquest of the Americas Black Conquistadors

o Juan Garridoo Estebanco,

Quarter 1—Unit 2A study of the Maroons of Jamaica and the Caribbean—their independence and assistance to the English explorers and privateers (Sir Francis Drake) in their war against Spain Creativity and

resistance: Maroon cultures in the Americas

The mystery of the lost or missing maroons of Roanoke

Quarter 2African Americans were crucial to the freedom and independence of the new America Crispus Attucks

African Americans in the Revolutionary War Why fight for the

American? Why fight for the British?

The promise and hope in the Declaration of Independence

Quarter 3African Americans and manifest destiny—their effect on the westward movement Black cowboys African Americans as

pioneers African Americans in

the Civil War Buffalo soldiers

Quarter 4How did reconstruction improve African American lives after the Civil War? A look at elected

officials, and the cooperation between poor whites and blacks

The hope for a new South and how reconstruction leads to, “A Dream Deferred?”

1862 and 1890 Morrill Act and the rise of the historical black colleges

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African Colonist—how some enslaved Africans from the Kongo avoided enslavement in the American colonies

Resources Suggested Text:Literature/Informational

Slavery and Beyond: The African Impact on Latin America and the Caribbean (Chapter1, pg. 1-7), by Darien Davis (editor)

A Black Conquistador in Mexico, by Peter Gerhard

Crossing the continent, 1527-1540: The story of the first African-American explorer of the American South, by Robert Goodwin

Online ResourcesWas Juan Garrido the first African American? http://www.afrocelebrities.com/was-juan-garrido-the-first-african-american/

Estevanico the Moor,

Suggested Text:Literature/Informational

Selected readings and primary source documents from The Roanoke Voyages 1584 – 1590 Volume I & II (pgs. IX, 249 – 255, 288 -313, 721 – 724, 728 – 731, 752 – 757), by David Beers Quinn (editor)

Excerpts from A Summarie and True Discourse of Sir Francis Drake’s West Indian Voyage, by Walter Biggs (1589)

Explorers and Colonies— America, 1500-1625, by David B. Quinn(Chapter 10)

Excerpts from Atlantic Creoles, and the

Online ResourcesCrispus Attuckshttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2p24.html

Crispus Attucks biography http://www.biography.com/people/crispus-attucks-9191864

The murder of Crispus Attucks http://www.loc.gov/exhibits/treasures/trr046.html

Crispus Attucks alias Michael Johnsonhttp://www.crispusattucksmuseum.org/document-crispus-attucks/

Crispus Attucks—runaway slave and Boston Masacre victim http://ancestorsinthenew

Suggested Text:Literature/Informational

History of the Fifty-Fourth Regiment of Massachusetts, by Luis Fenollosa Emilio

Online ResourcesBlack cowboys, African-Americans in the American West and Buffalo Soldiershttp://www.pbs.org/weta/thewest/lesson_plans/lesson04.htm

The other pioneershttp://www.scholastic.com/browse/article.jsp?id=4807

A brief history of the

Suggested Text:Literature/InformationalHeroes of the American Reconstruction: Profiles of Sixteen Educators, Politicians and Activists, by Stanley Turkel

Online ResourcesHistory of blacks in the West , chapters, 6, 7, 8, http://faculty.washington.edu/qtaylor/Courses/313_AAW/313_manual_cp_01.htm

Reconstruction and Its aftermath http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/aaohtml/exhibit/aopart5b.html

The Reconstruction Legacy of Renty Franklin Greaves of Beaufort County, South Carolina, by Giselle

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American history feature http://www.historynet.com/estevanico-the-moor-august-97-american-history-feature.htm#

Esteban of Azemmour and his new world adventures http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200202/esteban.of.azemmour.and.his.new.world.adventures.htm

African explorers of Spanish America http://www.nps.gov/ethnography/aah/aaheritage/SpanishAmB.htm

Cimaroon/maroon communities in Central and South Americahttp://www.questia.com/library/1G1-61026268/black-carib-bastion-of-freedom

Foundation of the Americas, 1585-1660, by John Thornton

Online ResourcesBlack rebels: The cimarrons of sixteenth-century Panama http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/the_americas/v064/64.2pike.html

Maroon cultures in the Americas http://www.folklife.si.edu/resources/maroon/educational_guide/10.htm

The people left behind— Moors or Melungeons? http://www.lost-colony.com/people.html

The Melungeonshttp://melungeons.com/articles/jan2003.htm

Free Africans in Colonial America http://www.common-place.org/vol-05/no-01/heinegg-hoff/

s.blogspot.com/2010/09/crispus-attucks-runaway-slave-and.html

Peter Salem biographyhttp://www.celebrateboston.com/biography/peter-salem.htm

Unrecognized revolutionaries http://unrecognizedrevolutionaries.blogspot.com/2013/04/peter-salem.html

Peter Salem at the Battle of Bunker Hill , Boston, 1775 http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/details.php?categorynum=15&categoryName=Military%20Activities%20and%20U.S.%20Civil%20War&theRecord=26&recordCount=27

1st Rhode Island Regimenthttp://www.blackpast.org/?q=aah/first-rhode-island-

Buffalo soldiers http://www.buffalosoldiers-amwest.org/history.htm

White-Perryhttp://www.archives.gov/publications/prologue/2010/fall/greaves.html

Frederick Douglass' role during the Reconstruction era http://www.helium.com/items/1218453-frederick-douglass-role-during-the-reconstruction-era

The Morrill Act http://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/Morrill.html

Morrill Act (1862)http://www.ourdocuments.gov/doc.php?flash=true&doc=33

From swastika to Jim Crow, historically black colleges and universities http://www.pbs.org/itvs/fromswastikatojimcrow/blackcolleges.htm l

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regiment ,

The 1st Rhode Island Regiment of the Continental Line http://www.americanrevolution.org/firstri.html

African American patriots of the Revolutionary War http://www.fold3.com/page/747_african_american_patriots_of_the/