OUSD Teaching American History Grant III

Thursday, November 20, 2008 Place: Oakland Technical High School Time: 4-6 PM		Book selection: Soul by Soul: Life inside the AnteBellum Slave Market by Walter Johnson Click on the image to learn more about this book.
I.	Introductions (4:00 4:15)
II.	Small group discussion (4:15 ? 4:45)
III.	Large group discussion (4:45 ? 5:45)
IV.	Prep for next session (Thursday, December 18, 2008)
Questions to consider: 1. What are the main sources that Johnson used in his research? 2. How and why did slaves shape the slave trade? 3. What does Johnson mean when he says (p. 111): "Paternalism, then, was something slaveholders could buy in the slave market."