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Pbs: Cet: Africans in America: The Growth of Slavery in North America Unit PlanPbs: Cet: Africans in America: The Growth of Slavery in North America Unit Plan
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PBS
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9th - 10th
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Pbs: Cet: Africans in America: The Growth of Slavery in North America

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Discusses the economics of slavery in South Carolina and its importance to the profitable growing of rice. It continues with ways the slaves were controlled and punished in South Carolina and Georgia. Click on Teacher's Guide for teacher resources.

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slave revolts, slavery

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black uprisings, pbs, rice plantations, slave labor, slave punishments, carolina slavery, ohio h.ci.4, ohio h.cwr.12, stono rebellion, teachers guide, the growth of slavery in north america, slavery in the southern colonies

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