Lesson 2.4 Complete Lesson Bundle (Notes and Packet) — LA AMISTAD & EARLY RESISTANCE TO THE SLAVE TRADE

BUNDLE INCLUDES:

🖥️ Lesson 2.4 Guided Notes Slide Deck (PDF)
📄 Lesson 2.4 Worksheet Packet (PDF)

Bring the history of Black resistance to life with this complete lesson bundle for Unit 2 of the AP African American Studies course. The guided notes slide deck covers resistance aboard slave ships, slave ship diagrams, and modern Black slave ship art. The 8-page worksheet packet adds primary source analysis of the Brookes diagram, Willie Cole's Stowage, the 1839 Amistad courtroom plea, and sketches of the Amistad captives, and it ends with an exit ticket.

📝 What's Included:

✅ 53-slide Guided Notes Slide Deck + 8-page Student Worksheet Packet (printable PDF + editable)
🖥️ Link to Editable versions (Google Slides & Google Docs)
⚓ Primary source analysis of the "Brookes" slave ship diagram and its role in early anti-slavery activism
🎨 Primary source analysis of Willie Cole's Stowage (1997), plus modern slave ship art by Toni Scott, John Rhoden, and Betye Saar
📖 Secondary source excerpt from Lorenzo J. Greene's "Mutiny on the Slave Ships" (1944)
⚖️ Study of the 1839 Amistad revolt led by Sengbe Pieh (Joseph Cinque) and the U.S. v. La Amistad Supreme Court case, with documentary video analysis
📜 Primary source analysis of the 1839 courtroom plea to the jurisdiction defending the Amistad captives
🖼️ Primary source analysis of courtroom sketches of the Amistad captive survivors (1839)
✍️ Exit ticket paragraph on resistance and anti-slavery activism
🧠 Guided note-taking and source analysis prompts

📚 Students Will Learn About:

⛓️ How enslaved Africans resisted on slave ships through hunger strikes, revolts, and other acts of defiance
🚢 How resistance changed slave ship design and made the trade more dangerous and costly
📐 How slave ship diagrams commodified enslaved Africans while concealing the true scale of suffering
✊ How abolitionists used these diagrams to expose the horrors of the Middle Passage
🎨 How modern Black artists repurpose slave ship imagery to process trauma and honor ancestors
🌊 The Amistad revolt, its two-year journey through the U.S. courts, and the Supreme Court ruling that freed the captives
🖼️ How the courtroom sketches challenged white Americans' perceptions of enslaved Africans

🎯 Perfect For:

✔ AP African American Studies (Topic 2.4)
✔ 9th–12th Ethnic Studies, African American History, or U.S. History enrichment
✔ Black History Month or African American history lessons
✔ Visual art, legal document, and primary source analysis
✔ Lessons exploring African resistance and the early anti-slavery movement

📎 Formats:

✅ Ready-to-print PDFs
✅ Includes links to Editable Google Slide Deck and Editable Google Doc
✅ Class-ready in 15 minutes or less
✅ Download once. Use every year.

🖥️📝 LESSON 2.4 NOTES PREVIEW:

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