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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.
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
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