Community Education Project

FLORIDA

The Community Education Project team developed lesson plans for college-level Food Studies courses but the lessons can be adapted to fit K-12. The central themes of the unit concern public history and slavery and the unit connects The 1619 Project to our community garden and research incarcerated students have been conducting on slavery in East Florida for the past three years. Students utilized the lessons to interrogate how local histories of slavery in East Florida are commemorated at former plantations.

Classroom photo. Educator with incarcerated students.

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