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**The Growth of Slavery in the Nineteenth Century and the Local Response** // With Professor Cynthia Lynn Lyerly, Boston College, Marcia Estabrook, Young Audiences of Massachusetts, and Tsongas Industrial History Center Museum Educators // February 2, 2010, 8:00 a.m. - 2:30 p.m.* Reading Memorial High School Distance Learning Lab
 * Teachers attending a school day seminar for the first time should arrive at 7:30 a.m. for a brief but mandatory orientation

This seminar will examine the growth and institutionalization of chattel slavery in the American South. In an interactive lecture, Dr. Cynthia Lynn Lyerly will discuss the impact of the cotton gin, the growth of the cotton belt, and the legal and cultural codes that were associated with southern slavery. In this study of slavery, participants will be guided to work with primary sources such as slave songs and runaway advertisements. A performance by Marcia Estabrook will provide a local perspective, as she tells the story of William and Ellen Craft, who escaped from slavery in Georgia and provided anti-slavery lectures in Boston prior to moving to England to avoid the Fugitive Slave Law. Educational specialists from the Tsongas Industrial History Center will use primary sources and classroom teaching ideas to study the local abolitionist movement and the ways that Massachusetts textile industries benefited from the institution of southern slavery.

__** Resources **__


 * Professor Lyerly's Session Materials **

Connections to Standards **
 * Advanced Reading Assignment **

**Agenda**

Warm-up activity – around resources || Professor Lynn Lyerly, Boston College || Pizza, salad, and drinks will be provided || Cotton, Cloth, and Conflict: The Meaning of Slavery in a Northern Textile City, Tsongas Center Museum Educators || Marcia Estabrook, Young Audiences of Massachusetts [] ||
 * 7:30 – 7:45 || Orientation Arrival ||
 * 7:45 – 8:15 || Orientation: Introductions, Paperwork & Pretest ||
 * 8:00 – 8:15 || Arrival and Breakfast ||
 * 8:15 – 9:00 || Welcome
 * 9:00 – 11:30 || Slavery in the 19th Century
 * 11:30 – 12:00 || Lunch
 * 12:00 – 1:00 || Classroom and Local Connections
 * 1:05 – 2:30 || Performance: Ellen Craft: Running 1,000 Miles to Freedom

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