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
- 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
- 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