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Introduction
 
About This Lesson
 
Getting Started: Inquiry Question
 
Setting the Stage: Historical Context
 
Locating the Site: Map
 
Determining the Facts: Readings
  1. The Trade in Human Chattels

  2. An Abolitionist's Perspective on the Alexandria Slave Pen

  3. Advertisements for the Sale of "Negroes"
Visual Evidence: Images
  1. The Firm of Franklin and Armfield as Featured in an American Anti-Slavery Broadside, 1836

  2. Interior View of Alexandria Slave Pen

  3. Exterior View of Alexandria Slave Pen

  4. Site Plan of Franklin and Armfield Slave Complex

  5. Exterior View of Alexandria Save Pen, 1864
Putting It All Together: Activities
  1. Timeline of Developments in the African and Inter-State Slave Trade

  2. My Community’s Labor History

  3. Slavery through the Eyes of the Enslaved
Supplementary Resources
 
Lesson Plans: Teaching with Historic Places in Alexandria, Virginia
"A Loathsome Prison:"
Slave Trading in Antebellum Alexandria

Locating the Site: Map

Question

  1. Identify those states that form part of the upper South. Identify those states that are located in the Deep South. If you were an enslaved person during that time, taking note of the distance between the Upper and Deep South, would you prefer to travel by land or by sea? Why or why not?

  2. Identify Washington, D.C. on the map. Taking note of the geography, why do you think that DC was a strategic location to have the headquarters for a slave trading firm?

1835 map

 
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