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What Artifacts Reveal About the Past

Analyzing Artifacts from Slave Life

Use this sheet to record your group’s ideas about your artifact.

Instructions: You will each be given a picture of an artifact. Answer the following questions about the artifact. Be prepared to share your findings with the class.

1. What is the artifact?

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2. What is the artifact made of?

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3. How do you think it was used? What clues lead you to that conclusion?

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4. Who do you think used it? Why?

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5. What does the artifact tell us about life in Freedman’s Village?

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