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  • Write a short story in which you travel to the future. Describe this world. What has changed? Does racism still exist in this society?
  • Read an original slave narrative of the 1800s, such as Frederick Douglass's Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) or Harriet Jacobs's Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861). Use the details of slave life to write a mock diary entry describing a typical day in the life of a slave.
  • As an interracial couple, Kevin and Dana Franklin face legal obstacles to their marriage in the nineteenth century and...

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