Unit 2 Complete Unit Bundle (All Lesson Notes and Packets) — ENSLAVEMENT AND EMANCIPATION

UNIT BUNDLE INCLUDES:

• 🖥️ 16 Guided Notes Slide Decks (PDF) covering Topics 2.1–2.24
• 📄 13 Worksheet Packets (PDF) covering Topics 2.1–2.24
• 🎤 Debate Facilitation Slide Deck + Teacher Debate Scoresheet (PDF) for Topics 2.18–2.19

Teach the full story of slavery, resistance, and freedom with this complete unit bundle for Unit 2 of the AP African American Studies course. Every guided notes slide deck and worksheet packet from Unit 2 is included in one download. Together they take students from the first Africans in the Americas through the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, the institution of American slavery, rebellion and revolution, the Underground Railroad, and the Civil War to emancipation and Juneteenth. The bundle also includes a ready-to-run classroom debate kit, so you can plan the entire unit at once.

⚠️ NOTE: This unit includes sensitive and graphic historical content, including film clips, period language, and descriptions of violence. Content warnings are built into the materials to center compassion and empathy.

📝 What's Included:

• ✅ Hundreds of slides across 16 Total Guided Notes Slide Decks + 135 pages across 13 Student Worksheet Packets + a 60-slide Debate Facilitation Slide Deck + a 2-page Teacher Debate Scoresheet (PDF + printable)
• 🖥️ Link to Editable version (Google Slides & Google Docs)
• 🗺️ Maps, route diagrams, and data charts on the slave trade, the domestic slave trade, and freedom-seeking across the diaspora
• 📜 Primary source analysis of slave codes, auction broadsides, court documents, the Emancipation Proclamation, and General Order No. 3
• ✍️ Primary source analysis of narratives, speeches, newspaper letters, and poems by figures including Olaudah Equiano, Phillis Wheatley, Solomon Northup, Frederick Douglass, and Maria W. Stewart
• 🎨 Primary source analysis of photographs, paintings, quilts, pottery, and modern art, including Jacob Lawrence, Willie Cole, David Drake, and Bisa Butler
• 🎥 Video sources and discussion questions from Crash Course, PBS, TED-Ed, the World History Project, and the National Museum of African American History and Culture
• 🌐 Slave Voyages interactive timelapse map activity and a Virginia slave laws interactive timeline
• 🎤 A complete classroom debate kit: Debate Prep Sheet, 60-slide Debate Facilitation Slide Deck, and Teacher Debate Scoresheet with point tracking
• ✍️ Practice short answer questions and exit tickets with writing frameworks
• 🧠 Guided note-taking, comprehension questions, and analysis prompts in every lesson

🗂️ Lesson-by-Lesson Contents:

• 🌍 2.1 — The First Africans in America
• 🚢 2.2–2.3 — Origins & Impact of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
• ⚓ 2.4 — Early Resistance & La Amistad
• 🌾 2.5–2.6 — The Institution of American Slavery
• ⚖️ 2.7 — Slavery Within American Law
• 🔬 2.8 — The Social Construction of "Race"
• 🎶 2.9–2.10 — Creating African-American Identity & Culture
• 🔥 2.11–2.13 — Slave Rebellions & the Haitian Revolution
• ✊🏾 2.14 — Black Activism in the Antebellum North & South
• 🌴 2.15–2.17 — Freedom-Seeking Across the Diaspora
• 🎤 2.18–2.19 — Black Freedom Debates: Fight, Flight or Birthright (includes the Debate Kit)
• 🚂 2.20–2.22 — The Underground Railroad & Abolition Photography
• 🎉 2.23–2.24 — The Civil War, Emancipation & Juneteenth

📚 Students Will Learn About:

• 🌍 The first Africans in the Americas and the roles they played in early colonization
• ⛓️ The Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade, from the triangular trade and the Middle Passage to the "Second Middle Passage" and the slave auction
• 💰 How slavery shaped the American economy, labor systems, and the racial wealth gap
• ⚖️ How slave codes, the Constitution, and the Dred Scott decision built slavery into American law
• 🔬 How race was invented as a social construct to justify slavery
• 🎶 How enslaved people created music, art, and community, and how Black identity and naming evolved
• 🔥 How enslaved people resisted, from slave ship revolts and the Amistad to the Haitian Revolution and rebellions across the United States
• ✊🏾 How free Black communities, Black women activists, and thinkers debated the best path to freedom
• 🚂 How the Underground Railroad, maroon societies, and Black Seminoles fought for freedom across the diaspora
• 🎖️ How Black soldiers and civilians shaped the Civil War, and how emancipation and Juneteenth came to be

🎯 Perfect For:

• ✔ AP African American Studies (Topics 2.1–2.24)
• ✔ 9th–12th Ethnic Studies, African American History, or U.S. History enrichment
• ✔ Black History Month, Women's History Month, or Juneteenth lessons
• ✔ Teachers planning a full unit with notes, readings, source analysis, and a culminating debate
• ✔ Homeschoolers and curious learners studying slavery, resistance, and emancipation in depth

📎 Formats:

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

A $56 Total Digital Product Value, BUNDLED together for a DISCOUNTED PRICE of $20.

Save by getting the whole unit in one download with this discounted Unit Bundle.