Life After Slavery …Starter: Spot the Difference

What are the differences and similarities between these pictures?

Life After Slavery …

Life After Slavery …

Life After Slavery …

Image drawn during slavery Photograph taken in 1891, after the abolition of slavery

L/O:A: Describe some of the effects of the abolition of slavery.

M: Explain the effects of abolition on the lives of Black people after the Civil War.

S: Evaluate the extent to which the lives of Black people improved after abolition.

DID THE LIVES OF BLACK PEOPLE IMPROVE AFTER

THE CIVIL WAR?

Write the numbers 1-10 down the margin at the BACK of your book…

Read the 10 statements on the next slide next to each of the numbers write T (True) or F (False).

Decide which of the statements are TRUE and which are FALSE.

The information sheet on SHARECROPPING will help you...

TASK 1

1. The American Civil War ended in January 1900.2. Slaves were free at the end of the American Civil War.3. Former slaves hoped to be treated as equals.4. The plantations were taken by the government.5. Former slaves wanted to work for the whites for wages.6. Former plantations were broken up into small parcels of

land.7. A sharecropper was a former slave who worked a section of a

former plantation.8. Sharecroppers had to give a percentage of their crop to the

owner of the land.9. Sharecroppers had smaller houses than they had had as

slaves. 10. After sharecropping, houses were spread all over the

plantation.

SHARECROPPING QUICK QUIZ

1. The American Civil War ended in January 1900.2. Slaves were free at the end of the American Civil War.3. Former slaves hoped to be treated as equals.4. The plantations were taken by the government.5. Former slaves wanted to work for the whites for wages.6. Former plantations were broken up into small parcels of

land.7. A sharecropper was a former slave who worked a section

of a former plantation.8. Sharecroppers had to give a percentage of their crop to the

owner of the land.9. Sharecroppers had smaller houses than they had had as

slaves. 10. After sharecropping, houses were spread all over the

plantation.

= TRUE = FALSE

Stick in your copy of the two diagrams below ‘Before Sharecropping’ and ‘After Sharecropping’ and add labels for the following features:

The Plantation Owners House Slave Huts Former Slave’s houses The School The Church Roads

Now answer the following questions in full sentences below your labelled pictures:HOW DID SHARECROPPING SEEM TO IMPROVE THE LIFE OF BLACK PEOPLE?

WERE THERE ANY DISADVANTAGES TO SHARECROPPING?

BEFORE AFTER

WHAT DID BLACK PEOPLE HOPE TO ACHIEVE AFTER THE

CIVIL WAR?

Identify 5 things from the worksheet ‘Sharecropping’ and present them as a list of bullet

points.

L/O:A: Describe the advantages and disadvantages of the abolition of slavery.

M: Explain the effects of abolition on the lives of Black people after the Civil War.

S: Evaluate the extent to which the lives of Black people improved.

DID THE LIVES OF BLACK PEOPLE IMPROVE AFTER

THE CIVIL WAR?

WHAT DO THE FOLLOWING MEAN:

ABOLITIONCONFEDERACYUNIONSHARECROPPING

THINK! Can you remember the ADVANTAGES and

DISADVANTAGES of Sharecropping from last lesson?

What 5 things did Black people hope for after the abolition of Slavery and the end of the US Civil War?

THE JIM CROW LAWS ‘Jim Crow’ was a character in an old song who was

revived by a white comedian called ‘Daddy’ Rice. Rice used the character to make fun of Black

people and the way that they spoke.

The term ‘Jim Crow’ came to be used as an insult against black people.

In efforts to stop Black Americans from being equal, the southern states passed a series of laws known as ‘Jim Crow’ laws which discriminated against Blacks and made sure that they were segregated (treated unequally) from Whites.

Segregation and the Jim Crow LawsBlacks were excluded from all newspapers and from trading.

They gradually lost any jobs they had gained after the Civil War.

 Whites owned the land, the police, the

government, the courtrooms, the law, the armed forces, and the press.

The political system also now denied Blacks the right to vote.

Murders were conducted in secret and in public by white men.

Blacks were harassed and abused, physically and verbally. These violent

acts became a part of their life.

Signs were put up to separate facilities saying "Whites only" and

"coloured" or "Negroes" appearing on parks, toilets, waiting rooms,

theatres, and water fountains.

Facilities for Whites were much better than those for Blacks.

THE KU KLUX KLANA White ‘underground’ (secret)

terrorist group.

Would not accept Black people as equals.

Dressed in white robes and hoods to stress their belief that Whites were

superior to Blacks.

Intimidated Black people with threats of violence, bullying,

lynching, setting fire to buildings and murder.

A Ku Klux Klan

Lynchmob smile and

pose for the camera…

NUMBER OF PEOPLE LYNCHED IN THE USA, 1920-1935:

WHITE BLACK TOTAL1920 8 53 611925 0 17 171930 1 20 211935 2 18 20

The lynching of Michael Donald, 1981 (I was 5!)

1. What does the table above show us about life for Black people in America between 1920 and 1935? Can you explain what is significant about the figures?

2. With the person next to you, list 3 good things and 3 bad things experienced by Black people after slavery and the Civil War had ended.

ASSESSED TASK:

How much did life improve for Black people after the Civil War?

TIPS:FREEDOM?

SHARECROPPING – Adv./Disadv.

Impact of the KKK

BALANCED ANSWER

At least 1 page

EXTENSION: find your own evidence!

USE THE LEVELS GRID AND MODEL ANSWERS TO HELP YOU

Level 4 Level 5 Level 6 Level 7 Level 8Change & Continuity

You can identify

change & continuity

within & across

different periods – for example, you

can describe the main

changes in the lives of

Black people in the

Americas.

You begin to

recognise and

describe change & continuity

.You can identify the most

useful sources to help your argument.

You include one or more

examples to support your ideas.

You begin to analyse

the nature

and extent of change & continuity – you can argue how

much things

changed and how

much things

stayed the same for

Black African-

Americans giving

several relevant examples to support your ideas.

You can more fully

analyse historical change & continuity

, using relevant sources

of informati

on and providing several

examples to support

your arguments.

You can show that

you understand

that life was

different in

different parts of

the Americas.

You are now constructing supported analyses

about historical change &

continuity.You can find

relevant informatio

n independently, and

can explain change as

well as continuity,

and that the pace of

change was different

depending on class,

gender and other

factors. You make

clear comparison

s within and across

periods.

USE THIS GRID TO LEVEL THE

FOLLOWING MODEL

ANSWERS...

SUCCESS CRITERIA:MODEL ANSWER A

Life improved for Black People after the end of slavery because they were free. They were able to do what they wanted and did not have to be slaves anymore.

They had their own small houses and could grow their own food. They had jobs.

They were not punished by the white masters. They were able to try to live normal lives…

SUCCESS CRITERIA:MODEL ANSWER B

Some aspects of life after slavery were better for Black people in America. The main thing was that they had achieved their freedom. However, this freedom came at a very high price.

Black people were without opportunities to get real jobs, and many former slaves chose to stay on the plantations working for the white men because they had nowhere else to go. They now had small huts of their own and could grow their own food through the sharecropping system. Some could go to their own schools and churches, however they did not have nearly the same freedoms as white people.

More seriously, they faced new dangers. Many white people, especially in the former slave-owning southern states, still viewed Black people as inferior and wanted to teach them a lesson. This meant that former slaves were subjected to violence from groups such as the white supremacist KKK. Some examples of this include…

When black people were slaves the white people had wanted to keep them alive to work and they were viewed as property. As “free” men, they were not needed for monetary gain anymore and some people wished them dead…

HUMAN OPINION LINE! The left side of the room is NO CHANGE! The right side of the room is LOTS OF CHANGE. All points in between are valid!

Stand in the place you feel reflects the lives of Black people after abolition.

You must be able to explain why you are standing where you are!

PLENARY:

Individually, think of TWO things you have learned this lesson...

Share your ideas with your partner – can you think of FOUR things?

Pair with another pair – can you think of EIGHT things?