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Seeking Freedom Through Maritime Means

LESSON PLANS

“I will take to the water. This very bay shall yet bear me into freedom”

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Frederick Douglass, The Narrative Life of Frederick Douglass

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Haunted by Waters
Slave advertisements and Slave Narratives

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Frederick Douglass:
Metaphor of slavery

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Three Marys

the Gullah

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Still Inspiring Courage:
The Maritime Skills of Robert Smalls

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Oyster Farming, Ecological Damage, and Freedom

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Free Water

The courage of Two enslaved children's escape into the Swamp
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Redburn
by Herman Melville

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Remember Liss

The Remarkable True Story of One Woman's Enslavement and Freedom in New York
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David
Ruggles

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The eight

The Lemmon Slave Case and the Fight for Freedom

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