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STEP 1. RESEARCH the story of Gabriel Prosser and the historical sites that are
in need of historic preservation on the Richmond Slave Trail:
all groups read this document together in class:
Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project: Gabriel and the Rebellion
STEP 1. RESEARCH the story of Gabriel Prosser and the historical sites that are
in need of historic preservation on the Richmond Slave Trail:
all groups read this document together in class:
Sacred Ground Historical Reclamation Project: Gabriel and the Rebellion
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STEP 2. The class will be divided up into four groups:
GROUP ONE: THE PUBLIC CITIZENS OF RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
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GROUP TWO: PUBLIC OFFICIALS FROM THE MAYOR'S OFFICE
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GROUP THREE: ARCHEOLOGISTS
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GROUP FOUR: HISTORIANS/ HISTORIC PRESERVATIONISTS
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ALL GROUPS must:
1. Conduct online research using the web sites listed below.
2. Split up the research amongst your group - let each person take a website to read and research.
[if you finish your assignment early, research another website listed for your group]
3. Jot down initial notes and thoughts.
4. Communicate your findings to the group.
5. Take notes and fill out your graphic organizers with the information you find.
Use one of the graphic organizers below:
1. Conduct online research using the web sites listed below.
2. Split up the research amongst your group - let each person take a website to read and research.
[if you finish your assignment early, research another website listed for your group]
3. Jot down initial notes and thoughts.
4. Communicate your findings to the group.
5. Take notes and fill out your graphic organizers with the information you find.
Use one of the graphic organizers below:
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Before you begin, click on this to watch a short clip from the documentary Meet Me in the Bottom: The Struggle to Reclaim Richmond's African American Burial Ground (by Shanika Smiley). It chronicles a community's struggle to preserve and properly honor the final resting place of enslaved and free Africans and African Americans. The site is currently a parking lot on 15th and Broad which is owned by Virginia Commonwealth University (VCU).
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GROUP ONE: Background History of the Site: VA Historical Markers:
The Execution of Gabriel
Old Negro Burial Ground
Richmond's African Burial Ground
Lumpkins Jail
The Triangle
The Reconciliation Statue
GROUP ONE: Background History of the Site: VA Historical Markers:
The Execution of Gabriel
Old Negro Burial Ground
Richmond's African Burial Ground
Lumpkins Jail
The Triangle
The Reconciliation Statue
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GROUP TWO: Library of Virginia/Virginia Memory:
Gabriel's Conspiracy
This day in Virginia History (August 30, 1800) and Gabriel (1776-1800)
Testimony in the Trial of Gabriel (October 6, 1800)
Transcription of the Gabriel Trial Testimony
Death or Liberty: Gabriel's Rebellion and Remembering Revolt
GROUP TWO: Library of Virginia/Virginia Memory:
Gabriel's Conspiracy
This day in Virginia History (August 30, 1800) and Gabriel (1776-1800)
Testimony in the Trial of Gabriel (October 6, 1800)
Transcription of the Gabriel Trial Testimony
Death or Liberty: Gabriel's Rebellion and Remembering Revolt
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GROUP THREE: James River Archeology/ University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab:
2006 Preliminary Archeological Excavations: Lumpkins Jail Project
2008 Archeological Excavations/ What Did We Find?
What is the Significance of What We Found?/ What Will Happen to the Site?/ What Will Happen to the Artifacts?
Hidden Patterns of the Civil War: Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond
Visualizing the Richmond Slave Trade
GROUP THREE: James River Archeology/ University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab:
2006 Preliminary Archeological Excavations: Lumpkins Jail Project
2008 Archeological Excavations/ What Did We Find?
What is the Significance of What We Found?/ What Will Happen to the Site?/ What Will Happen to the Artifacts?
Hidden Patterns of the Civil War: Digital Scholarship Lab at the University of Richmond
Visualizing the Richmond Slave Trade
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GROUP FOUR: PBS: Africans in America:
Gabriel's Conspiracy (1799 - 1800)
Conditions of Antebellum Slavery (1830 - 1860)
Historical Documents: An American Slave Market (1852)
Historical Documents: Garnet's "Call to Rebellion" (1843) and skim read this transcript
Historical Documents: Rebel's Statement from Gabriel's Conspiracy (1804) and narrative
GROUP FOUR: PBS: Africans in America:
Gabriel's Conspiracy (1799 - 1800)
Conditions of Antebellum Slavery (1830 - 1860)
Historical Documents: An American Slave Market (1852)
Historical Documents: Garnet's "Call to Rebellion" (1843) and skim read this transcript
Historical Documents: Rebel's Statement from Gabriel's Conspiracy (1804) and narrative
STEP THREE: ALL GROUPS:
1. Using your research information - as well as the information provided in the links below - to create a time line of the Richmond Slave Trail Commission Projects and Events (use the graphic organizer below; just provide basic facts and dates):
Richmond City Council Slave Trail Commission : read top paragraph about projects ONLY and click on video link on the left hand side (view full screen)
Richmond city Council Slave Trail Commission: scroll down mid-page to 2011/read from that point on (list of dates/projects)
2. Skim read the report: Burial Ground for Negroes, Richmond, Virginia: Validation and Assessment: look at the information and factual evidence presented (read and discuss as a group first - then review report and images whole-group in class)
1. Using your research information - as well as the information provided in the links below - to create a time line of the Richmond Slave Trail Commission Projects and Events (use the graphic organizer below; just provide basic facts and dates):
Richmond City Council Slave Trail Commission : read top paragraph about projects ONLY and click on video link on the left hand side (view full screen)
Richmond city Council Slave Trail Commission: scroll down mid-page to 2011/read from that point on (list of dates/projects)
2. Skim read the report: Burial Ground for Negroes, Richmond, Virginia: Validation and Assessment: look at the information and factual evidence presented (read and discuss as a group first - then review report and images whole-group in class)
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STEP FOUR: Public Reaction and News Coverage:
1. READ and discuss:
GROUP 1: NPR (National Public Radio) article: The Root: The Sad History of Cemented Cemeteries
GROUP 2: Richmond-Times Dispatch article: Richmond Slave Jail's Foundation Found and McDonnell Announces Slave Burial Ground Deal
GROUP 3: Smithsonian Magazine article: Digging Up the Past at a Richmond Jail
GROUP 4: Alliance to Conserve Old Richmond Neighborhoods: Richmond's Slave Trail Coming Together
2. ALL GROUPS: watch and discuss the videos below; record your thoughts and reactions.
STEP FIVE: THINKING ABOUT THE FUTURE: ALL GROUPS:
Sankofa: "Go back and fetch it": Ghanian symbol that represents the wisdom in learning from the past to build the future
1. Talk about what this symbol means to you, as an individual and as a part of your specific group.
2. Examine your graphic organizers and revisit these ideas:
Sankofa: "Go back and fetch it": Ghanian symbol that represents the wisdom in learning from the past to build the future
1. Talk about what this symbol means to you, as an individual and as a part of your specific group.
2. Examine your graphic organizers and revisit these ideas:
- Why did Gabriel lead the rebellion?
- What happened - before, during, and after his failed rebellion?
- What is the historical importance of this event?
- Why isn't his story more well known?
- Why did they pave over the African burial ground?
- Why is this historical site still important today?
- Why could it be important for future generations?
- What can we learn from this historical site and these historical events?
- What do you think about this historical site, now that you've done your research? What are your feelings on the matter?
- What should (or shouldn't) be done to protect it?
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3. Food for Thought:
ALL GROUPS:
Check out the African Burial Ground in New York City: A Sacred Place in Manhattan
ALL GROUPS:
Check out the African Burial Ground in New York City: A Sacred Place in Manhattan
Former Virginia Governor Wilder's plans for a US National Slavery Museum recently failed. He had hoped to create a 100,000 square foot museum in Fredericksburg, Virginia - complete with a 450-seat theater, a full-scale replica of a slave ship, and artifacts and documents of the slave-trading era. Plans for the museum are now on hold.
READ:
GROUP 1: Richmond Times-Dispatch article: National Slavery Museum Files for Bankruptcy Protection
GROUP 2: Take a look at the Richmond City Council Slave Trail Commission's Slave Trail Map (consider whether or not a national slave museum could work here in Richmond)
GROUP 3: New York Times article: Tax Bills Imperil Slavery Museum
GROUP 4: The National Trust for Historic Preservation: Preserving Our Nation's Historic Neighborhoods, Buildings, Homes and Sites (note: while this was created for teachers, your group can learn more about the importance of historic preservation from this document - relate it to the demise of the US National Slavery Museum and plans for the African Burial Ground/historical sites in Richmond)
ALL GROUPS: AFTER READING: choose and print out one of the graphic organizers below - they will help you organize your thoughts as you think critically about the facts (about Richmond's historic burial ground) and begin developing your opinion(s) about what should be done about the site.
READ:
GROUP 1: Richmond Times-Dispatch article: National Slavery Museum Files for Bankruptcy Protection
GROUP 2: Take a look at the Richmond City Council Slave Trail Commission's Slave Trail Map (consider whether or not a national slave museum could work here in Richmond)
GROUP 3: New York Times article: Tax Bills Imperil Slavery Museum
GROUP 4: The National Trust for Historic Preservation: Preserving Our Nation's Historic Neighborhoods, Buildings, Homes and Sites (note: while this was created for teachers, your group can learn more about the importance of historic preservation from this document - relate it to the demise of the US National Slavery Museum and plans for the African Burial Ground/historical sites in Richmond)
ALL GROUPS: AFTER READING: choose and print out one of the graphic organizers below - they will help you organize your thoughts as you think critically about the facts (about Richmond's historic burial ground) and begin developing your opinion(s) about what should be done about the site.
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STEP SIX: Developing Your Letter to the Editor
By this point, you should know a lot about the story of Gabriel Prosser and Richmond's African Burial Ground. You also have a sense of whether or not the public supports plans to preserve this historic area. You've got a lot of ideas of your own, and now it's time to express them!
Your topic for your letter : WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT THIS HISTORIC AREA?
By this point, you should know a lot about the story of Gabriel Prosser and Richmond's African Burial Ground. You also have a sense of whether or not the public supports plans to preserve this historic area. You've got a lot of ideas of your own, and now it's time to express them!
Your topic for your letter : WHAT SHOULD WE DO ABOUT THIS HISTORIC AREA?
- Look over your graphic organizers that you've filled out in the past few days.
- Discuss your ideas and opinions with your group.
- Do you have a consensus about what you think should be done about this historic area?
(Do you all agree on a plan of action?) - Do you have ideas of your own - ideas that are different?
- Talk about the pros and cons of your ideas
- Examples of ideas to think about: Are your ideas practical? Who will benefit? What additional work should be done? Whose input should you get? Who should be involved in the planning process? What will this mean for your community? What relevance does your plan have for the city, for you, and for future generations?
- What FACTUAL evidence do you have to support your ideas?
- Use both graphic organizers below to help you organize your thoughts before you write your letter.
- You may review the web quest links and videos above to help you develop your ideas.
- Be sure to write your letter IN CHARACTER - from your group's perspective!
- Review grading criteria on final rubric
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If you would like to shoot a video expressing your opinion,
prepare your speaking points and record a short video.
Ms. Mingus must supervise the video recording and will record your response.
prepare your speaking points and record a short video.
Ms. Mingus must supervise the video recording and will record your response.
- Speak clearly and look directly at the camera.
- Keep it brief and make your point(s).
- The videos will be featured on our class blog after completion of our web quest.
STEP 7: MEETING AT CITY HALL
All four groups will come together to discuss their ideas. As citizens of Richmond, Virginia, all participants will come to gather information about the topic, voice their opinions, and listen to others' viewpoints. Remember: this is a serious topic that affects your community. All opinions and ideas expressed should be treated with respect - whether you agree or disagree.
Today's moderator will be your teacher, Ms. Mingus. She will be asking questions and calling upon each of the four groups to provide answers.
RULES FOR THE MEETING:
All four groups will come together to discuss their ideas. As citizens of Richmond, Virginia, all participants will come to gather information about the topic, voice their opinions, and listen to others' viewpoints. Remember: this is a serious topic that affects your community. All opinions and ideas expressed should be treated with respect - whether you agree or disagree.
Today's moderator will be your teacher, Ms. Mingus. She will be asking questions and calling upon each of the four groups to provide answers.
RULES FOR THE MEETING:
- Everyone must participate.
- Each person will be given a number card. Your moderator will call out questions directed to people holding a certain number.
- When the moderator calls upon you, you must stand to speak. Please address your remarks directly to the moderator.
- In answering your question, think about what you've researched, what you've watched, and what you've written.
- Think and speak in character. ("I am a public citizen. I live in Church Hill;" "I am on the mayor's business planning committee;" "I am an archeology student;" "I am a local historian;" etc.) Be creative and express your point of view!
- Each member of the group will be asked a question and must provide an answer.
- If it is a question you feel that you cannot answer, you may trade your number card with another person in your group. You can only trade your card if someone is willing to trade with you OR you may ask for a lifeline (a period of one minute in which you can talk quietly with your group to formulate an answer).
- At the conclusion, we will draw up a proposed plan for the historical site and load it to our class blog.