Africans There/Africans Here: The Yoruba, Ashanti, and Mende in 19th-Century West Africa/The Middle Passage and 19th-Century America

Two how-to handbooks in one! In Africans There: The Yoruba, Ashanti, and Mende in 19th Century West Africa, your students will take part in the activities of three young people in their native lands. In Africans Here: The Middle Passage and 19th Century America, they will learn through simulations and activities about the passage of the slave ships to America; life of the enslaved people in America; and the underground railway. They’ll learn songs and dances of the African American from the perspective of the same three newly arrived slave people.