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Colonial Williamsburg Teacher Gazette
February 4, 2005Volume 3, Issue 6

CONTENTS
After 1723, Manumission Takes Careful Planning and Plenty of Savvy

Primary Source

Teaching Strategy

Colonial Williamsburg Teaching Resources

Teaching News

Quote of the Month


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February 10, 2005


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After 1723, Manumission Takes Careful Planning and Plenty of Savvy

As the institution of slavery matured in colonial Virginia, slaveholders saw the small number of free blacks in the colony as a "great inconvenience." Although the General Assembly never considered reenslavement of the existing free black population, it took measures to prevent slaveholders of "ill-directed" generosity from adding to the numbers by setting slaves free.

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Primary Source: Journal of Nicholas Cresswell

Nicholas Cresswell, born in Edale, England, was 24 when he went to America in 1774. Cresswell had occasion to attend a slave gathering and observe what went on there.

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Teaching Strategy: Slavery & Free Blacks

Try these five ideas to help make teaching about these sensitive topics easier and more manageable.

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Colonial Williamsburg Teaching Resources for Your Classroom

Colonial Williamsburg offers a variety of quality instructional materials to help you teach students about life in early America, including:

 —Slavery: A Colonial Odyssey (Lesson Plan)
 —Hands-On History: Slave's Bag
—Enslaved (Becoming Americans video)
 —Stories Under African Skies (Cassette)

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Teaching News

Thanks to everyone who stopped by the Colonial Williamsburg booth at last month's Florida Educational Technology Corporation Annual Conference. The conference was held January 27-28 in Orlando, FL.

Congratulations to the following door prize winners, who took home copies of Colonial Williamsburg's video series A Day in the Life:

Connie Pinner from Citra, FL
Rebecca Hulon from Kissimmee, FL
Elizabeth Hughes from Lake Wales, FL

Quote of the Month

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."

--Declaration of Independence
July 4, 1776

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