Grade Range: 4-12Resource Type(s): Reference MaterialsDate Posted: 10/21/2008
Students can learn about the Dodges, Chance and life at the time of the American Revolution by investigating a room from their house, a will from 1786, and artifacts from the period. By the 1770s, Abraham and Bethiah Dodge and many other Americans were willing to risk everything for independence, and African Americans such as Chance, their slave; asked white patriots to live up to their ideas about liberty. The Dodges and Chance are one group of people that lived in the Ipswich, Massachusetts house which is the focus of Within These Walls, an online exhibition.
Multimedia instruction, Museum education, Thematic approach
Continental army uniform coat worn by Colonel Peter Gansevoort Jr. of the 3rd Regiment of the New...
Black History, Revolutionary War, War of Independence, Black, slave, social history, History, African-American, African American, soldier, African American History Month, February, American revolution, slavery, family, uniform, 18th century, black history month, African-American History Month, African American history
Beginning with the Stamp Act that angered the patriots, readers meet George Washington, Thomas Je...
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