FREE BLACK HISTORY PRINTABLE · AGES 7–15

Start with a story.
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Get Week 1 of Volume 2: The Builders, free. Meet Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, and Robert Smalls, the riverboat pilot who sailed a Confederate ship to freedom and later served five terms in Congress.

16 PRINT-READY PAGES3 READING LEVELSANSWER KEY INCLUDED

Cover of the free Week 1 sampler from Black Legacy League Volume 2, The Builders, with two young readers, a book and a map.

WHAT’S IN WEEK 1

Freedom Fighters
Before the Movement.

Three men. Three strategies.
One question: what did each one risk?

Robert Smalls biography page with a painted portrait, dates and a short kid-sized biography. — 01 Kid-sized bios with portraits

Look Closer page with Robert Smalls’s own words from the 1895 South Carolina convention and questions about the document. — 02 A real primary source

Try It page asking kids to draw a map of Charleston Harbor and trace the Planter’s escape route. — 03 Map the Escape activity

Welcome page and a five-day rhythm, 20 to 30 minutes a day
Open the Door story hook and Meet the Story overview
Three biographies: Nat Turner, Denmark Vesey, Robert Smalls
Look Closer primary source and Think Like a Historian
Words to Know, Make the Connection, and Talk About It
Choose Your Level for ages 7–9, 10–12, and 13–15, plus Check What You Know
Answer key and a Note for the Grown-Up

Hard history, handled with care

This week covers enslavement and uprisings. The lesson pages carry the history and leave out the imagery. The details live in a note for grown-ups at the back, with a sentence you can say aloud if your child asks. Read it first and share as much as you judge right.

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Get Volume 2: The Builders

Start with a story.Your first week is free.

Freedom FightersBefore the Movement.

Hard history, handled with care

Eleven more weeksare waiting.

Start with a story.
Your first week is free.

Freedom Fighters
Before the Movement.

Eleven more weeks
are waiting.