Unit 26 – In the shadow of slavery
How has slavery changed the face of America?
Try this Black American History Crossword: https://learningapps.org/watch?v=pq57604jt22
1 – From Africa to America
What sparkled America’s interest in Africa?
video: sequence from the film La Amistad, Steven Spielberg, 1997
extras:
The Atlantic slave trade
The Middle Passage (video)
Slave auctions
Grammar Box: the Passive Voice
Active and Passive Voice tenses:
You can also listen to this story:
Interactive exercises on the Passive Voice:
in the Past Simple: https://exercices-anglais.com/exercices-sur-le-passif-en-anglais/
Choose the correct answer: https://exercices-anglais.com/exercices-voix-passive-anglais/
Take these tests:
beginners: https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/complex_tests/passive1/index.php
Intermediate: https://www.englisch-hilfen.de/en/complex_tests/passive2/index.php
Test from your textbook: https://numeres.net/9782210112605/res/9782210112605-ht5-htr-anglais1re-25/index.html
Going further…
Hidden History: La Amistad
2 – Being a slave
How was life and work on the plantations?
Paintings
Text “Cotton picking season”
video: 12 Years a Slave – opening scene
Grammar Box: Obligation, permission and ban in the past
Negro Spirituals as the only way out
Going further…
3 – Hope and Resistance
How to break the chains?
Painting: A Ride for Liberty – The Fugitive Slaves, Eastman Johnson, 1862
Text “Free At Last”
Grammar Box: Les auxiliaires modaux au passé (+ voix passive)
exercice sur les auxiliaires modaux au passé: https://www.anglissime.com/trainingdir/pastwithmodal.php
Trailer: Underground
Nat Turner: fanatic or hero?
Text “Slave rebellions” (snap study)
Poster by Daz Tibbles for Quentin Tarantino’s film Django Unchained.
4 – War and Freedom
Was slavery the cause of the Civil War?
Text and infography: The Civil War and emancipation
Poster: Lincoln’s victory
Grammar Box: the Past Perfect
Going further…
Interactive timeline: https://www.timetoast.com/timelines/reconstruction-rise-and-fall-38f260db-178b-49c0-b2df-654982a94654
5 – In Memoriam: A World’s Dark History
How can art help to pass on collective memory?
photo: “Slave Market Memorial”, Stone Town, Zanzibar (Africa)
photos: “Vicissitudes”, by British artist Jason deCaires Taylor, Grenada Underwater Sculpture Park (Caribbean Sea), 2006
About the artist and his art … Jason deCaires Taylor
Ghana’s sea of sculpted slave heads commemorate slave trade, 400 years on
How does the USA recognise centuries of slavery?
The National Museum of African American History and Culture, in Washington D.C.
Grammar Box: the Present Perfect (revisions)
Watch this lesson : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppFv1hlMHjI
