| Clip Of Against Wind and Tide
Description
Ousmane Power-Greene talked about African Americans' battle with the American Colonization Society, an organization founded in 1816 with the intent to return freed slaves to Liberia.
10 minutes
Bell Ringer Assignment
- Why was the American Colonization Society established?
- Explain Henry Clay's relationship with the society.
- Describe the slavery debate that was occurring in the nation in the 1830s.
- Explain the colonization debate that was occurring among African Americans in the U.S at this time.
- What was the Fugitive Slave Law? Explain its impact.
- What were some of the challenges the American Colonization Society faced?
Participants
Vocabulary
- 13th Amendment
- Abolition
- Colonization
- Emancipation Proclamation
- Frederick Douglass
- Fugitive Slave Law
- Haiti
- Henry Clay
- Immigration
- Liberia
- Reconstruction
- William Lloyd Garrison