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The Anti-Slavery Movement

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Eleventh graders as a class create and write a constitution for an anti-slavery society. They investigate demographics of slavery, treatment of slaves, the colonization movement, and women in the abolition movement, and present their findings to the class.

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11th
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Social Studies & History
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