NA Slavery in LA Lesson 3 Lesson Plan

NA Slavery in LA Lesson 3 Lesson Plan

Pre-European Contact/First Contact

"Westward Expansion"

In this lesson, students will expand on their knowledge about slavery by exploring the tasks and conditions Native Americans were forced to withstand. Native American enslavement manifested itself in many forms during European colonization, ranging from explicit slavery to encomienda systems, missions, and presidios (i.e. fortified military settlements). Even as some European monarchies like the Spanish Crown and individuals perpetrated genocide and enslavement on Native peoples, some other Europeans began campaigns to protect the rights of Native Americans. In an effort to reveal the horrors of Native enslavement, some prominent European figures like Bartolomé de las Casas left a telling historical record of the enslavement and mistreatment of various Native peoples. From these accounts, students will gather more details regarding the exploitation and abuse of Native American communities.

Madison Wardlaw, Deborah Michaels

English

Lesson Plan

Cuba

Haiti

1500s

Low High School

2018