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People, Not Numbers:  Bringing 12 Million into Personal Ter Lesson PlanPeople, Not Numbers:  Bringing 12 Million into Personal Ter Lesson Plan
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Students forge a compassionate link to the large numbers of people who were the victims of slavery as opposed to thinking of them simply in terms of numbers. They perform a math exercise to put the number of people in slavery into perspective.

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6th - 12th
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English Language Arts
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