History of the Negro Race in America ... - Google Books
Is this the connection with General Orders 329?
The Ghost of Bobby Lee - Atlantic Magazine
Perhaps only excerpts of this can be used with students, but all of it should be read by teachers. Exposing the myth that Robert E Lee did not support slavery helps reveal the general manner in which the veneration of the past reflects an inability to deal with the present.
Negroes in a State of Freedom at the North and in England
Civil Rights lessons or even lessons on affirmative action can be informed with this 1859 article in DeBows Review, the southern weekly journal.
The Day New York Tried to Secede
This article exposes the involvement of NY City in human trafficking and slavery even after the abolition of the slave trade. NYC's relationship with slavery was so close the city almost seceded from the state at the start of the Civil War. Maybe teachers know about the July 1863 draft riot, but this story shows that event has a past as well.
“New York belongs almost as much to the South as to the North,” observed the editor of the <i>New York Evening Post</i>. The city’s businessmen marketed the South’s cotton crop and manufactured everything from cheap clothing for outfitting slaves to fancy carriages for their masters. Wood himself called the South “our best customer. She pays the best prices, and pays promptly.”
Although the state of New York had voted in 1827 to abolish slavery, New York City traders continued to provide slaves––first to the South, then to Brazil and Cuba––right up to and during the Civil War. Whether as investors, ship owners or captains and crews, New Yorkers promoted, enabled and carried on the traffic in humans. Of all the cities in America, New York was the most invested in the transatlantic slave trade.