FOCUS QUESTIONS:

• 1) What kind of work did house slaves, field slaves, and children do?
• 2) What kind of food and clothing did house slaves and field slaves receive?
• 3) What were colonial plantations and slave quarters like?
• 4) What were the religious beliefs of the enslaved people? How did their religion and music combine to express their lives?
  
• 5) What kind of education did enslaved people receive? What did they do for entertainment?
  

Helpful Resources:

• Introduction to Colonial African American Life
• Slave Clothing
• Slavery on the Plantation
• Life of a Slave Family
• Slave Women and the Headwrap
• Slavery: Gender-Specific Clothing
• Slave Diet
• Reasons for 18th Century African American Music (http://www.history.org/history/teaching/enewsletter/volume6/feb08/teachstrategy.cfm)
• African American Music: Spirituals and Gospel Music
• Sweet Chariot: The Story of the Spirituals - Click on the links in the menu bar on the left to read about spirituals that enslaved people sang.
• Music in Slave Life
• Follow the Drinking Gourd- Scroll down to the Historical Background Notes section to read about spirituals. 
• African American Music: Blues and Jazz 
• Songs of Freedom
• The Language of Music: African Americans- Hear samples of songs that were popular amongst African Americans
• African American Music- 1800s
• Slave Work Song: Shuck That Corn Before You Eat
• The Slave Experience: Religion
• Slave Religion
• The Slave Experience: Education, Arts, & Culture (Also includes information about music)
• African American Games
• Slave Quarters Photos 
• If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America by Anne Kamma
• Life on a Plantation by Bobbie Kalman
• If You Lived in Colonial Times by Barbara Brenner
• Colonial Kids by Laurie Carlson
• Children's Life in Colonial America by George Rice
• History Pockets: Colonial America by Marc Tyler Nobleman
• Everyday Dress of the American Colonial Period by Peter F. Copeland
• and other books about colonial times available in our class and school library!

Notes

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Slavery Presentation Script