This is the link to the NPR clip (I’m only going to use the first 5 minutes that explain the basic idea): http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1548811
Preparation: Have some slips of paper with the different audiences on them so that students can draw for their audiences (slaves, white southern plantation owners, northerners, or slave traders). I’m going to encourage students to counter the “curse of Ham” as much as possible in their posters.