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Life of a Slave Girl
http://www.gc.cc.va.us/
~gcadamj/hjhome.htm
Description: Harriet Jacobs was a slave in
19th century America. Her autobiography is a facinating tale about the
life of a young girl and her family during that period.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
Sectional Conflict During the 1850s
http://jefferson.village.
virginia.edu/seminar/
unit4/unit4.html
Description: Read the words of mid 19th century
American people as they hotly debated the slavery and states rights quesitons
in the mid 19th century, issues so divisive that they resulted in tragic
Civil War.
Comments: This is a site is co-sponsored by
the National Archives and the University of Virginia.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
Stratford Hall Plantation
http://www.stratfordhall.org/
Description: Take a virtual tour of a southern
plantation, examine the document of the month, and explore life among children,
indentured servants and slaves as well as plantation owners.
Comments: Stratford Hall is the birthplace
of Robert E. Lee.
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: High
Conditions on Louisiana Cotton Plantation 1853
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/
mintz/10.htm
Description: Solomon Northrup, a free black
of New York who was kidnapped and sold into slavery, describes conditions
he experienced on a cotton plantation in Louisiana in the 1840's.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low
Conditions on Tobacco and Cotton Plantations
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/
mintz/11.htm
Description: Charles Ball describes life on
a Maryland tobacco plantation and a cotton planatation in Georgia. Though
he found "the general conditions of slavery...the same everywhere," he
noted real differences in the manner in which slaves were treated.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low
Excerpts from Slave Narratives
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/
mintz/primary.htm
Description: This site has 46 excerpts from
stories by and about slavery and the African American experience from 1682-1937.
Comments: The resources are clear and accurate
but the format is text only and difficult for young students. The source
is identified at the bottom of each passage.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: High
To Live Like a Slave
http://www.history.org/other/
journal/slave.htm
Description: This Colonial Williamsburg Journal
article describes life as a slave in colonial Virginia. Its pictures and
personal discussion make the writing interesting and accessible to students.
Resource Type: Secondary Text
Graphics Content: High
We Lived in Log Huts
http://vi.uh.edu/pages/
mintz/12.htm
Description: In this excerpt from his autobiography,
Josiah Henson describes how he lived as a slave on a Maryland plantation
in the mid 19th c.
Resource Type: Primary Source Text
Graphics Content: Low
Eli Whitney
http://www.invent.org/book/
book-text/108.html
Description: The life of Eli Whitney, the
inventor of the cotton gin.
Comments: One page biography
Resource Type: Mix of Text and Graphics
Graphics Content: Low
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A Point of View on Slavery: Slaveholders
http://www.archives.state.al.us/
teacher/slavery/slave3.html
This lesson studies slavery from the view
of slaveholders. James A. Tait was a wealthy slaveholder in Wilcox County,
Alabama. He recorded notes about his slaves, including births and family
relationships, in a memorandum book. He also recorded his thoughts and
advice to his children on the mangement of slaves and his plantation. As
an amateur historian, it is your job to "read between the lines" to determine
his beliefs about the institution of slavery and the nature of the enslaved
peoples.
Author: Alabama State Archives
Life in Rural Louisiana During the 1800's
http://asterix.ednet.lsu.edu/
~edtech/webquest/
laRural.htm
Explore virtula museums and artifacts from
Louisana's history and rewrite a modern children's story to make it authentic
to the historical period.
Author: Susan Crowther and Judy Ordoyne
Slave Code of 1833
http://www.archives.state.al.us/
teacher/slavery/slave1.html
Laws were passed to regulate slavery after
Alabama became a territory and then a state. The antebellum legal status
of slaves and "free persons of color" in the state of Alabama was defined
and codified in the Slave Code of 1833. The primary source ducuments in
this lesson discuss runaways, emancipation, sale, and other matters pertaining
to slaves and free Blacks, giving a real understanding of how of how "democractic
society" in the South really worked until the Civil Rights Movement. Vestiges
of these laws are recognizable in the Jim Crow laws after the Civil War.
Slavery: Point of View of Former Slaves
http://www.archives.state.al.us/
teacher/slavery/slave2.html
Here is your chance to be an amateur historian
as you read and analyze oral accounts of slavery form those who lived it.
These oral histories were done in the 1930's as part of the Federal Writer's
Project .
Author: Alabama State Archives
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/
curriculum/socialstd/grade5/
Sweet_Clara.html
This lesson is based on a true, little-known
chapter in African American history retold by Deborah Hopkinson. As a seamstress
in the Big House, Clara knows she's better off than the slaves who work
the fields. But slavery has separated Clara from her mother, and she can
never be happy. Clara dreams that they will be reunited one day and run
away together - north to freedom. She sees how to use the cloth in her
scrap bag to sew a map of the land - a freedom quilt - that no master will
ever suspect is a map to freedom. To access this lesson, click on "return
to Social Studies Overview page" and then on "Economics and Geography Lessons
for 32 Children's Books." Select the title from the list.
Author: Patricia King Robeson
The Amistad Case
http://www.nara.gov/education/
teaching/amistad/home.html
Write an article for an 1841 newspaper describing
the decision of the Supreme Court in the Amistad case. Research the provisions
of the Congressional Act of March 19, 1819, for background information
recognizing the differences in sectional reactions to the case.
Author: National Archives
To Be a Slave
http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/
score/slave/slavetg.html
After eading To Be A Slave (a collection of
nonfictional accounts of slavery interwoven with historical narrative),
by Julius Lester, you will complete activities which will help you answer
the following questions: 1. What was a typical slave's day like? 2. What
role did African-Americans play in the Civil War? 3. How do the lives of
slaves and free blacks compare? Note: This is a great lesson for a humanities
core class.
Author: Liz Nichols
Two Tickets to Freedom
http://www.mcps.k12.md.us/
curriculum/socialstd/grade5/
Two_Tickets.html
Two Tickets to Freedom is a true story of
fugitive slaves William and Ellen Craft. The story begins on a winter morning
in 1848 when Ellen Craft, a light-skinned young slave, disguised in men's
clothing, walks into a train station in Macon, Georgia, and purchases two
tickets, one ticket was for herself and the other for her husband. Posed
as a white Southern planter, and her husband, William, as her slave, she
escaped to freedom.
Author: Patricia King Robeson
When Rice Was King
http://www.cr.nps.gov/
nr/twhp/wwwlps/lessons/
3rice/3rice.htm
Textbooks tend to examine the 1750's-1850's
in the South as the rise of cotton culture. It is important, however, to
understand that before "cotton was king," the plantation system had already
been producing crops such as rice, indigo, and tobacco for many decades.
Using the primary material given here, pretend to be a newspaper reporter
from a northern city who has come to interview people (both enslaved and
free) living on a plantation similar to Chicora Wood. Note: Teachers will
need to work with fifth graders on the background section of this activity
but the maps and plantation plans are interesting and accessible for younger
students.
Author: Fay Metcalf and Brenda Olio
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Choose a partner and do a 2
or 3 minute skit based on one of the lessons in this
section. The rubric will follow the 8.1 rubric.
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