View of The New Jersey Miscount - There were several dozen enslaved people in New Jersey in 1865
This shows how research persistence can uncover the past we do not teach and do not know.
Avalon Project - Confederate States of America - Message to Congress April 29, 1861 (Ratification of the Constitution)
More evidence that the Confederacy was formed to protect slavery. Period. In the third paragraph, Davis constructs an interesting conspiracy theory that may engage students in his myth. Did the north intentionally sell its slaves to the south to reduce the number of blacks in the north - thereby making it easy for the north to abolish slavery? Then, when the north had sold its population of blacks to the south, it would end slavery?
U.S. History: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - YouTube
A worthwhile half hour for teachers, though language and references make this unusable with students. Though teachers could use the start/stop timing features of Google slides and embed the sections of the video in a slideshow.
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.