Micro Genre: Initial Ideas

• Poster
• Creating an object based on the percentages of slaves from the different regions.
• Their secret hiding places, secret meetings. 
•  Create sign/poster with hidden messages. 
• The crops they collected - tobacco, cotton, corn
• Create packaging for tobacco
• Cotton gin machine
• Textile industry, huge demand for cotton, sew/fabric.
• North/South divide
• Slaves couldn't read or write - something which could communicate to them. 
•  Harriet Beecher Stowe, who published the bestselling antislavery novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” (1852). - Book cover
• Underground Rail road - create a map
• Ticket - citizenship/right to vote
• Jamestown virginia
• Pottery - create something ceramin
• with a graph on
• create a fabric with screenprint of a graph on
• Masks