This Jackdaw is the appropriate reading level for upper elementary, middle school and high school students reading below grade level. It contains the same, ready-to-use, hands-on historical documents as the original, upper-level Jackdaw; most of the documents are actual-size replicas. The fully reproducible Broadsheets provide historical background for understanding the documents.

The classroom display of the slave sale poster, bill of sale for a slave, and the Emancipation Proclamation provided in this Jackdaw will help your students understand the human tragedy of slavery and Lincoln’s efforts to halt the practice and save the Union. The historical documents dramatically show the consequences of slavery on slaves, their owners and our nation to your students. Historian: William C. Hine, adapted by Muriel L. Dubois. The contents of this Jackdaw feature:

• Slavery Comes to the New World Colonies
• Slavery in the 1800s: the South
• Slavery in the 1800s: the North
• The End of Slavery

• Newspapers and slavery: Page 3 of the South Carolina Gazette, Oct. 1736.
• Newspapers and slavery: Page 1 of The Camden Journal (S.C.), Jan. 1831.
• Slave sale poster, 1835.
• Bill of sale for a slave, 1838.
• Ordinance prohibiting Slaves from doing mechanic or handicraft trades, 1796.
• Portion of the Georgia Slave Code, 1848.
• Petition for payment for execution of slave by burning, 1802, transcript.
• Petition to free a slave, 1820, and transcript.
• Letter from a slave, 1838, and transcript.
• The Emancipation Proclamation, 1863, and transcript.