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School Programs

African-American History

Connections: From Africa to America

Students identify the connections among people through time and place and demonstrate an understanding of African American life. Beginning with African antecedents and continuing into the present day, students learn chronological order and geography.

By using primary documents, artifacts, photographs, and stories, students analyze and interpret African American life during the 18th-,19th-, and 20th-centuries.

They learn about the interactions between people of European and African descent and how those cultural exchanges have influenced South Carolina and America today.

By observing and examining African instruments and baskets that are still made in both Senegal and the Lowcountry today, students learn to identify and describe how trans-Atlantic traditions have survived in a similar fashion for almost three centuries.

Opportunities For Older Students

Connections provides more in-depth opportunities to analyze and evaluate Africa and the African-American experience during slavery and after emancipation and to interpret African and African-American contributions, including farming techniques and languages. Students learn to use different historical sources, such as music and oral history, and to synthesize their findings.