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Guiding Questions
How did indentured servitude differ from chattel slavery?
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Why did slavery come to mean racial or black slavery?
In what ways did slavery in the Americas differ from slavery in Africa, ancient Greece and Rome, or in other places and times?
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How did African Americans develop unique cultures in response to slavery?
How did free African Americans, especially in the North, develop their own institutions and actively seek the abolition of slavery?
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How did the culture of African Americans adapt and survive?
What was the role of religion in the debate over slavery?
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How did geographical factors, technological innovations, individual inventors, and entrepreneurialism contribute to the expansion of slavery?
How did slavery as an economic system affect the economy and the social and class systems in the North, the South, and the West?
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What role did the process of compromise play in the disputes about slavery?
What actions did African Americans take before, during, and after the war to secure their freedom and rights as citizens?
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How did post-bellum black communities differ from slave and antebellum free black communities?
Big Questions
Politics:When do personal or private matters become matters of legitimate public concern?
Economics:How do different economic systems allow societies to respond to questions about production, consumption and distribution?
History: How do different views of the past contribute to current ideas and actions?
Identity and Culture: Why do cultures come into conflict?
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