About This Lesson
Essential Question:
HOW DID CAPTAIN RILEY’S ENSLAVEMENT EXPERIENCE INFLUENCE PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN TOWARD EMANCIPATION?
Objective: To have students analyze and evaluate white enslavement and its subsequent influence on President’s Lincoln Emancipation Proclamation
Citations:
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King, Dean. Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 2004 (Pgs. 116-119 and Pgs. 304-305)