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A Data-driven Investigation of Euphemistic Language: Comparing the...
While teachers are working on their classroom reference to "enslaved people" to assert the humanity of the enslaved, there is a deep academic current underneath and across time, where the words used to describe people is evolved over time.
The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard - YouTube
5 minute video that provides a general description of slavery, providing students with contextual foundation for later lessons about slavery in detail. This provides and strong foundation for later lessons
The Atlantic slave trade: What too few textbooks told you - Anthony Hazard | TED-Ed
Cotton, Mortgages, and the Lehman Brothers | Inside Adams
This shows the connection between cotton brokers who ran southern blockades to sell cotton for army uniforms was the origin of the brokerage of the late 20th century
Before Solomon Northup: Fighting Slave Catchers in New York
Although some escaped slaves made it to New York City, there were active slave catchers/kidmappers who captured and brought african americans in front of judges to have the returned to the south. This article details one of these cases and explains the resistance offered by the Vigilance Committee and Manumission Society of New York.
American Panorama - Forced migration in the American south
The map of forced migration tells the most powerful story through data and narration. While one tab alongside the map shows the number of enslaved people in each state by year, the other tab gives life to those statistics, through accounts by those forced into slavery.
slave's friend. - NYPL Digital Collections
From 1836 to 1839, the American Anti-Slavery Society published The Slave’s Friend, a juvenile periodical edited by abolitionist Lewis Tappan. Each issue, specially sized to fit small hands, was 16 pages in length and featured a mix of stories, news items, and poems meant to gently but firmly tell white children about the evils of slavery. Sending students into this collection will make them feel more like historians than students
Africans in America/Part 4/Garnet's "Call to Rebellion"
National Negro Convention of 1843 Buffalo NY
In a few years the colonists grew strong, and severed themselves from the British Government. Their independence was declared, and they took their station among the sovereign powers of the earth. The declaration was a glorious document. Sages admired it, and the patriotic of every nation reverenced the God-like sentiments which it contained. When the power of Government returned to their hands, did they emancipate the slaves? No; they rather added new links to our chains.
Brethren, the time has come when you must act for yourselves. It is an old and true saying that, "if hereditary bondmen would be free, they must themselves strike the blow."
Searching for Nat Turner in Southampton County, Virginia (the Site of His Insurrection) — Demetria Lucas D'Oyley
Teachers looking to show students how history lives on can use this page and it's comments to see how the "history" of an event is still fought over more than 150 years later.
Charles Ball. Fifty Years in Chains, or, The Life of an American Slave.
Students should know that reading a first hand account of slavery will offer them a better insight into anything they might find in a textbook. Just the same, teachers can find many quotes and descriptions from this narrative to use in DBQs and other lessons. Edward Baptist featured Charles Ball in his "The half has never been told: Slavery and the history of capitalism"
Tallmadge Amendment - Contextual Background and four short primary documents
This lesson provides students with background of the Missouri Compromise with four short documents. It then asks students to prepare an argument for the north and the south using the documents. What's the problem with this? The economic argument of the north, the protection of free white labor, resistance to growing slave owning aristocracy is absent the documents. The moral argument of the north is included, but nothing else. Teachers can use this to show students how the education industry itself is making history.
How descendants of the slave trader Isaac Franklin tried to make amends in Alexandria, Va - The Washington Post
Newspaper article describing how one family confronts its slave owning past
The Columbian Orator: Caleb Bingham (Book)
The Columbian Orator, was widely used in American schoolrooms in the first quarter of the 19th century to teach reading and speaking. This section of the 1832 publication contains a dialog between a master and a slave, giving insight into how children were taught about this relationship. Frederick Douglas wrote about the impact of learning to read using these books
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The Nat Turner Project
A Digital Archive of historical sources related to Nat Turner and the Southampton County slave revolt of 1831-the only large-scale slave rebellion ever to occur in the United States.
Children Of Darkness | AMERICAN HERITAGE
Stephen Oates article about Nat Turner rebellion
The Columbian Orator: Containing a Variety of Original and Selected Pieces ... : Caleb Bingham
The Columbian Orator, was widely used in American schoolrooms in the first quarter of the 19th century to teach reading and speaking. This section of the 1832 publication contains a dialog between a master and a slave, giving insight into how children were taught about this relationship. Frederick Douglas wrote about the impact of learning to read using these books
Descendants disagree about 1831 slave revolt - CBS News
"Descendants on opposite sides of Nat Turner's slave rebellion are united by a love of history -- but disagree about Turner"
Evergreen Plantation - Historic Site
One of the few surviving thoroughly intact plantations (slave labor camps) in the United States, the Evergreen Plantation still has cabins used to house enslaved African-Americans. The pictures, articles lesson and slavery database are all helpful to teaching the complete story of a sugarcane plantation in Louisiana
Slavery in New York
From the New York Historical Society
The Cotton Trade - Brown Brothers Harriman
This is the bank's acknowledgement of it's role in 19th century slavery
Slave Streets, Free Streets:Visualizing the Landscape of Early Baltimore
The potential of digital history to allow teachers and students to "see" the past based on research is realized with this view of Baltimore.
Student Notebooks | Slavery & the UVA School of Law
Notebooks from students at the University of Virginia Law School reveal how property laws related to slavery were taught and learned before the Civil War
These lectures center on the rights of property-holding white men and their relationship to slavery and the state. Thus, Law School teachings provided the legal justifications for slavery—one important tool in solidifying a slave society—to students whose whole University experience nonetheless supported white supremacy and slavery.