Center African and African American voice, resistance, humanity, and community-building in colonial America — Equiano, Wheatley, Felix Holbrook, Belinda Sutton, Stono Rebellion, the African American family
Exercise Difficulty 4 ~6 min hist.g5.f.ex_30

Resilience First Equiano

MG-10 Illustration
Resilience-First Promise — paired with MG-8 and MG-9 for trauma-informed lessons. Five-line text: 'When we learn about h

Resilience-First Promise — paired with MG-8 and MG-9 for trauma-informed lessons. Five-line text: 'When we learn about hard history — the Middle Passage, the Slave Codes, the Trail of Tears, the Pequot War — we open with RESILIENCE. We name what enslaved people, what Indigenous nations, what oppressed communities created and built and sustained. Resilience comes FIRST, then we tell the harm, then we close with resilience again.' Style: dignified scroll layout matching MG-8 and MG-9.

Prompt

Apply MG-10 Resilience-FIRST: how did Olaudah Equiano achieve his freedom and what did he do with it? (4 sentences)

How it's presented
mode writing prompt audio ID audio.g5f.ex 30.stem
Answer criteria
type open ended
rubric
Required: taught himself to read / Quaker enslaver Robert King permitted trading / saved £40 for self-purchase 1766 / became abolitionist in London / published Narrative 1789
Hints
  1. Lesson 13 covered Equiano's self-emancipation
  2. Resilience-FIRST means naming his agency and post-emancipation life
Misconceptions to watch
  • Missing the £40 self-purchase fact
  • Reducing him to victim
Used in lessons