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Week Two--The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in America

**Essential Questions:**
 * Why were African Americans more desirable as slaves than indentured servants or Native Americans?
 * What sort of conditions did Africans endure on their voyage to the New World?
 * How were slaves’ family and personal lives different than those of other Americans?
 * What tactics and strategies did the leaders of the abolitionist movement use to promote their cause?
 * How did blacks and whites seek to assist those who wanted to escape slavery?
 * How did slavery lead to the rise of sectionalism and the beginning of the Civil War?

**Notes & Resources: **    [|Interactive Trade Routes] [|Exploration & Colonialism] [|The Middle Passage: Slaves at Sea] [|The Amistad Slave Revolt] [|Talladega College: The Amistad Murals] [|Daily Life on the Plantation]     [|Field Slave, House Slave, Plantation Owner, Sailor Comparison]