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Newberry Library: Slavery, Civil War, and the "New Birth of Freedom" Unit PlanNewberry Library: Slavery, Civil War, and the "New Birth of Freedom" Unit Plan
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The Newberry Library
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9th - 10th
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Social Studies & History
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Lexile Measures
1120L
Unit Plan

Newberry Library: Slavery, Civil War, and the "New Birth of Freedom"

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Newberry Library presents primary source materials from which students learn about the arguments made for abolition before the Civil War, how the appeals against slavery were framed, and what freedom would mean for the South and the country.

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Concepts

slavery, civil war

Additional Tags

civil war literature, civil war songs, freedman's bureau, slavery, civil war, and the "new birth of freedom", arguments against slavery, anti-slavery literature, anti-slavery movement, resistance to abolition

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 4 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • The intended use for this resource is Instructional

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