(4/22- 4/26) Week 5 Agenda-4

Monday April 22

• Objective: To understand the systems used, and justifications for, slavery in the Americas.
• Entry:
  • In the context of human categorization, what is race?
  • How did people decide who belongs to which "race"?
  • Is race based on genetic differences?
• Activity
  • Finish Capitalism and Slavery

Tuesday April 23

• Objective: To understand the systems used, and justifications for, slavery in the Americas.
• Entry:
  • What were the main motivations for Europeans using enslaved labor in the Americas?
  • How do we still see the impact of those today?
  • In nations like Britain, France, and the United States that espoused the idea of liberty and individual freedoms, how did they justify maintaining a system that ran so counter to those ideals?
• Activity
  • Crash Course Black American History Part 1 Links to an external site.
  • Race and Coerced Labor

Wednesday April 24/ Thursday April 24

• Objective: To finish answering the questions from Race and Coerced Labor, and deepen our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade as a system.
• Entry: 
• Activity:
  • Crash Course Black American History Part 2 Links to an external site.
  • Race and Coerced Labor Questions

Friday April 26

• Objective: To explore our ideas on whether capitalism and slavery are compatible or incompatible systems.
• Entry: 
  • We've identified that race is a social construct created by people. In your own words what does that mean?
  • Since race was created by people it must have served a purpose, what are the purposes that race served in colonial expansion and the trans atlantic slave trade?
• Activity:
  • Finish Race and Coerced Labor