TEACHING THE TRIANGLE OF TRADE
THROUGH MAPPING AND SIMULATION EXERCISES

II. LESSON PLAN : RESOURCES

VIDEOS

• “Africans in America: America’s Journey Through Slavery” (PBS)
  
• “The Middle Passage” (HBO Home Video)

TEXTBOOKS

• A History of US by Joy Hakim link to website
  
• History Alive link to website

TRADE BOOKS

• Growing up in Slavery: Stories of Young Slaves as Told by Themselves, edited by Yuval Taylor, Lawrence Hill Books, c. 2005
  
• They Came In Chains, The Story of the Slave Ships, by Milton Meltzer
  
• A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, 1859 (Dear America), by Patricia McKissack
  
• Bound for America: The Forced Migration of Africans to the New World, by James Haskins and Kathleen Benson, Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Books, c. 1999
  
• American Voices from Colonial Life, by Rebecca Stefoff, Benchmark Books, c. 2003
  
• Slave Ship to Freedom Road, by Julius Lester
  
• The Middle Passage, by Tom Feelings, Dial Books, c. 1995