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This WebQuest's Building Blocks:

• Introduction
• Task 1
• Task 2
• Websites for Research

Introduction

In Nettie’s Trip South, Nettie writes to her friend Addy about her trip from Albany, New York to pre-Civil War Virginia. Nettie writes about the slave in the hotel named Tabitha, seeing slave quarters and the horror of seeing a slave auction. She wonders what her life would be like if she were a slave.

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Task 1

Activity In this activity you will view pictures of slave auctions and slave life. You will write a letter to a friend as a response to one of the pictures. You may write from the point of view of the slave, a buyer, a seller or an observer. Tell what you saw, heard and felt at the auction or when observing slave life.

• Slaves Waiting for Sale
• The Sale
• Slave Auction
• Slave Auction in Charleston, SC
• Buy Us Too
• Inside of Slave Pen, Alexandria, VA
• Slaves in Front of Slave Quarters
• Slave Family
• Slaves Picking Cotton
• The Lash
• Slave with Scars from Whipping
• In the Swamp
• The Underground Railroad

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Task 2

Some people worked very hard for the abolition of slavery. In this task you will pick one of the people below to research and make a time-line of their life. Use this form for your research and time-line.

• Frederick Douglass
• Sojourner Truth
• Harriett Tubman

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Websites for Research

• Grolier Online
• Frederick Douglass at America's Library
• Harriet Tubman at America's Library
• Women Hall of Fame – Sojourner Truth

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