Following Araminta

This courses teaches key events and themes of US History during the period of 1820-1913 by requiring that students look at them through the eyes of Harriet Tubman (Araminta). Given her statute, influence and contact, students get to see various laws, conditions, customs, and events from the point of view of a freedom fighter on the plantation. Students are expected to learn:

• A version of an African family in captivity that is rarely seen
• The African captive trade
• African resistance to captivity (on sea and land)
• Spiritual maturity and African resistance
• 3/5 clause of the Constitution and other laws relative to fugitive African captives
• The causes of the Civil War
• Araminta' s various influence... (i.e John Brown, Frederick Douglass, Secretary of State Seward, etc.)
• The geography Harriet Tubman’s trips
• The Civil War (financing, battles, contradictions and themes)
• The Industrial Revolution and the beginning of the labor movements 

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