August 8, 2007
Presentations
Please choose among the following presentation ideas
1. Find out who Harriet Beecher Stowe was and present her biography
http://www.harrietbeecherstowecenter.org/life/
2. Songs of Protest. Analyze the song “Oh Freedom” (you can have the song on CD)
Lyric: http://www.ibiblio.org/jimmy/folkden-wp/?p=7019
3. The revolutionary war and the issue of slavery (You can have the information copied)
4. Selling and buying slaves (How were they bought and sold? What was the price? Were slave families kept together?
5. Who was Rosa Parks?
6. What is the Underground Railraod?
7. What was the Amistad case?
8. What did abolitionist do to fight slavery?
9. How did slavery end?
10. Civil War
11. How did the freed slaves prepare themselves to be a part of American life after slavery ended?
Write a comment which you like to choose. You can work with one partner. (less than 5 minutes!)