Contains two how-to handbooks. In the first book, students take part in the activities of three young people in their native lands. In the second book, they learn through simulations and activities about the passage of the slave ships to America; life of the enslaved people in America; and the underground railway.

This title contains two how-to handbooks in one! In "Africans There: The Yoruba, Ashanti, and Mende in 19th Century West Africa", your students will take part in the activities of three young people in their native lands. In "Africans Here: The Middle Passage and 19th Century America", they will learn through simulations and activities about the passage of the slave ships to America; life of the enslaved people in America; and the underground railway. They'll learn songs and dances of the African American from the perspective of the same three newly arrived slave people.