A few weeks ago, as part of our study of historical fiction, I read aloud Amistad Rising by Veronica Chambers with illustrations by Paul Lee. Now we are going to look at the Amistad story again through the eyes of one of its participants — Sarah Margru Kinson. As I mentioned to you, the Amistad [...]
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Sarah Margru Kinson and the Amistad
Published by February 7th, 2007 in Forced Immigration. 0 CommentsWe started our study of Forced Immigration by considering different kinds of involuntary servitude. For example, I showed you the picture book Molly Bannaky by Alice McGill and illustrated by Chris K. Soentpiet and we talked about the difference between slavery and indentured servitude. How one was for life while the other was not.
Then [...]
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