Examine the various duties and trades performed by slaves (e.g., agricultural work, painting, carpentry, tailoring, domestic service, blacksmithing, transportation).
Benchmark Clarifications: Clarification 1: Instruction includes how slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit.
Clarification 1 is the only clarification added to SS.68.AA.2.3.
They can teach how Robert Smalls learned boat piloting skills which help him and the 6 other enslaved Black men of the crew seize the Planter from the traitorous Confederacy and let them and the Smalls family escape from the "rat hole" of Charleston so 16 people could become free citizens of the United States?
And they can teach how Frederick Douglass' female owner Sophia Auld taught him the alphabet at age 12, before his male owner Hugh Auld convince her that slavery and education were incompatible, and that teaching a slave to read was illegal. This taught Douglass that education was the path to freedom. By a combination of subterfuge and by convincing the local white kids to help him, he learned to read, and teach other slaves to read, leading him on a path towards becoming an author of influential antislavery writings and a national leader of the abolitionist movement.
There's a lot of history like this which fit the requirements of SS.68.AA.2.3. I'm sure it won't be a problem. /s
