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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 55 Print image (43K) |
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TASK FORCE TO STUDY THE HISTORY AND LEGACY OF SLAVERY IN MARYLAND (Final Report) 1999/12/31 MdHR 991422 MdHR 991422, Image No: 55 Print image (43K) |
| 46 [A] project that I am pleased to bring to your attention is a teacher institute entitled Early Slaves Cultures in the Tidewater/Chesapeake and Carolina Lowcountry. Learning and Teaching at Historic Sites. This collaborative effort between the National Park Service, The National Trust for Historic Preservation, and Prince George's County Community College will bring thirty teachers together for five weeks to 1) broaden their knowledge and understanding of the complex and diverse nature of slave cultures in early Anglo-America; 2) demonstrate the techniques and resources for the study of material culture from which new knowledge and understanding has been derived; and 3) learn techniques to improve the presentation of slavery to their students and the general public. One week of this five-week program to run from June 25 to July 29, 2000 will be held at Sotterley Plantation. [Excerpt from Oral Testimony of Dr. Russell L. Adams, Chair, Afro-American Studies Department, Howard University] An inventory should be made of the various Black History infusion public school in-service teacher training course and course materials. I have developed at least three such course modules: two for Calvert County and one for Montgomery County (HR-18 "Black Experience and Culture"), copies of which should be in the Baltimore |