Grade5

What were the effects on the colonies and the nation of the denial, curtailing, and expansion of civil rights for diverse groups of Americans?
 * Essential Question:**

What changes occured on Beacon Hill from the late 1700's-1860 for men, women, children (black and white)? How did the lives of African-Americans change after the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts in 1783? (Driscoll) How did African-Americans' views of themselves change after the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts?
 * Guiding Questions:**

Describe the significance and consequences of the abolition of slavery in the northern states after the Revolution and of the 1808 law that banned the importation of slaves into the United States.
 * Massachusetts History Framework Standards: 5.31**


 * D'Orsi/Zelaya**

Pam Zelaya Draft lesson **** February 4 Draft lesson **** March 11 semi-final Version **** Content & Process Rubric **

Objectives:**
 * 1) Students will locate and understand differences in the Beacon Hill neighborhood in the 1800's.
 * 2) Students will look at school books from 1800's to assess education.
 * 3) Students will describe leisure activities of the era from archaeological findings.

Using the lives of 3 generations of the Roberts family, students will look at how the abolition of slavery had an impact on their lives in Boston. 1857: Robert Roberts published //The House Servant Directory// http://digital.lib.msu.edu/projects/cookbooks/html/authors/author_roberts.html

Advertisement for purchase of //The House Servant Directory// in Essex Register, Salem, MA http://docs.newsbank.com/s/HistArchive/ahnpdoc/EANX/10BF438BE77C8540/0F20FECAAFCBE6ED

- wrote articles for Liberator
 *  Connectors: ** 1820s, Roberts worked for Appleton and Kirk Boott, the powerful Lowell textile mill owner.

Benjamin Roberts(son of Robert Roberts) a printer, also a publisher of the //Anti-Slavery Herald// and in 1853 //The Self Elevator//

Sarah Roberts(daughter of Benjamin Roberts) in 1848 Sarah Roberts vs. Boston http://www.masshist.org/longroad/02education/roberts.htm# http://brownvboard.org/research/handbook/sources/roberts/roberts.htm

School: School books, primer, (1800-1850) from school for black and white children in Beacon Hill neighborhood. Description of Smith School http://www.primaryresearch.org/bh/show.php?dir=smithschool&file=1 Leisure activity: We are hoping to find artifacts that people (men, women and/or children used in their leisure. Toys, dolls, equipment, songs, poems, anything depicting leisure activities for both blacks and whites on Beacon Hill in 1800-1850. (Geared to children) Maps: Beacon Hill, Boston Fire Maps, Bostonian Society, shows changes in Boston's physical space and demographics. http://maps.bpl.org/details_10180/?maid=25 Closeup of Belknap Street, Beacon Hill, 1852
 * Primary Source Documents and Artifacts:**

Microtexts: City of Boston (1800-1850) newspaper articles related to the education of blacks and whites. Rare Books: We are hoping to find any broadsides or diaries that capture the look and feel of education for blacks and whites on Beacon Hill in 1800-1850. i.e. Colored American Magazine or Boston Illustrated


 * BPL images:**



1) J.G. Hale 1814 Map of Boston Available January, 2009 (Leventhal Map Room)

2) McIntyre Map of Boston. S. Robert's Andover Street, available online. (Leventhal Map Room)

3) Pinney Plan of Boston. S. Robert's residence (Leventhal Map Room)

4) 1867, 1st Sandborne map. Andover Street. S. Robert's residence (Leventhal Map Room)

Boston Schools and Primers from BPL Rare Books
 Village Reader, //What is Education?// Lesson LXXXIX (79) Primary Schools of the City of Boston (1850)  Charles Theo Russell school petition (August 29, 1849) - XbH.A849.R91R BPL Rare Books

Law: http://brownvboard.org/research/handbook/sources/roberts/roberts.htm

Selected Articles from Garrison's The Liberator
http://www.primaryresearch.org/bh/index.php Selected articles from the Liberator

Smith School, Belknap Street [Letter to Editor] Justice September 2, 1842. Page 139.

The Public Schools C. Starbuck Jun 5, 1846. Page 89.

Constitutionality of Separate Colored Schools Charles Sumner Feb 1, 1850. Page 18.

The Smith School [Letter to Editor Criticizing W.C. Nell] Thomas Paul Smith February 15, 1850. Page 27.

Mass Historical Society
The Meeting House School (1843) located in Smith Court on Beacon Hill, was one of the segregated schools for African American students, including young William Nell and Sarah Roberts. Courtesy of The Bostonian Society/Old State House What is the primary source? What's the MA Hist connection?

Museum of the African American History, Boston and Nantucket
http://www.afroammuseum.org/smith/ Learning from the past: Revisiting the Abiel Smith School 1835-1855 (Slide Show)

**Driscoll** Students will be able to analyze what life was like for African Americans living in Massachusetts before and after the abolition of slavery in Massachusetts from the American Revolution to the early 1800s.  Driscoll Draft Lesson
 * Objectives:**

 Students will examine interpret the 1783 Quock Walker ruling that effectively ended slavery in Massachusetts. They will determine if the ruling changed the lives African Americans as well as how Africans viewed themselves.  Massachusetts Historical Society; African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts //The Struggle for Freedom// [|www.masshist.org/endofslavery/?queryID=55]

Massachusetts Historical Society; African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts //Revolutionary Participation// [|www.masshist.org/endofslavery/?queryID=56]

Massachusetts Historical Society; African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts //The Lives of African Americans in Massachusetts after the End of Slavery [|www.masshist.org/endofslavery/?queryID=53]//

Oxford African American Studies Center Cuffe, Paul http://www.oxfordaasc.com/oa/article/opr/t0002/e1114/images/t0002.cuffe-paul.01.jpg?p=oaAIJMd.z3JsBTY&d=/opr/t0002/e1114

Oxford African American Studies Center Roberts, Robert http://www.oxfordaasc.com/oa/article/opr/t0004/e0483?p=oaAI/6t65orrKrY&d=/opr/t0004/e0483

Massachusetts Studies Project Timeline http://www.msp.umb.edu/afam/AfAmTimelines.html

A Chronology of African American Military Service From the Colonial Era through the Antibellum Period http://www.redstone.army.mil/history/integrate/CHRON1.html  **Primary Source Documents an d Artifacts:** Bill of sale signed by Benjamin Dolbeare as administrator of the estate of Nathaniel Loring to Benjamin Williams regarding Boston (a slave), 1 June 1774

//Images from the collections of the// // Massachusetts Historical Society. //   This is a selection from a legal notebook kept by William Cushing, the chief justice of the Supreme Judicial Court of Massachusetts, regarding the case of Quock Walker (1783). The jury found in favor of Walker, a slave who ran away from his master (Nathaniel Jennison) in 1781 //Image from the collections of the// // Massachusetts Historical Society. //

Items assembled by Zelaya, D'Osri, a nd Driscoll
 * Assessment Questions:**
 * [[file:testquestionsG5.doc]]**