This lesson is designed to have students approach family separation in slavery from multiple first-hand perspectives including a published narrative, an ad placed in a newspaper searching for family, and an interview with a formerly enslaved person recalling their own separation through sale. Situated within Reconstruction, students will consider how Reconstruction involved more than political reunification, for newly freed people it meant the chance to search for family and ignited the hope for reunion.

Grades 6-8

Texas

Texas History