Grade 8 Lesson at a Glance: Chapter 11, Lesson 2

Houghton Mifflin Social Studies
A More Perfect Union

Lesson at a Glance
Chapter 11, Lesson 2: The Antislavery Movement (pp. 320-324)

The Big Idea
Framework Concept: Rights The antislavery movement and grew in the 1830s, partially because of the work of free blacks and women.

Outline the growth of the abolition movement in the 1830s, pointing out the no-compromise position of William Lloyd Garrison. Include the work of free blacks and escaped slaves such as Sojourner Truth and Frederick Douglass. Be sure students understand that slaves had resisted slavery in a variety of ways before this movement.

Review the work of women in the abolition movement. Discuss the roles women played in the beginning and how they worked to change them. Talk about the ways Uncle Tom's Cabin spread the message of abolition and reached people who had not been reached in other ways.

Lesson Outline
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Check for Understanding

Ask students to write a newspaper story as though it were 1831, describing the newspaper, the Liberator, and explaining how its ideas about slavery are different from earlier discussions.
Organize students into working groups, and have each group create a playbill (poster) advertising a performance of Uncle Tom's Cabin. Encourage them to incorporate public reactions to the play and public feeling about slavery.

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