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Wanted Poster for Emily, a Runaway Slave
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis resource, provided by the Ohio Historical Society, contains an image of an original wanted poster for a runaway slave. This...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Africans in America : Judgment Day, 1831-1865
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThe Africans in America documentary series, from PBS, explores the impact of slavery on Americans, white and black, as they fo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Africans in America: Freedom and Resistance
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis web page, part of the PBS Africans in America Web site, describes how free blacks in nineteenth-century Philadelphia fought...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis resource, found on the University of Virginia Web site, provides introductions to the narratives provided by thirteen forme...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Slaves of a South Carolina Plantation
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis resource, offered by PBS Online in conjuction with their site Africans in America, provides a historical photograph of sl...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0How Slavery Helped Build a World Economy
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Economics, Geography, United States History, History-Social Science, American DemocracyIn this National Geographic News article, read about slavery in the United States. Most European colonial economies in the Ameri...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Voices from the Days of Slavery: Song Title List
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History, Music, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, is a collection of links to songs sung by former slaves. Part of...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Revealing Untold Stories: Examining Depictions of Slavery as Presented in a Variety of Texts
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, United States History, Reading Comprehension, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students explore how and why historical resources present information ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Of Human Bondage: Exploring Perspectives on Slavery During the Civil War Using Primary and Secondary Sources
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, United States History, Writing Strategies, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students explore how experiences and observations about a specific eve...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Held Accountable: Connecting Accounts from Slave Narratives to Historical Research
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, United States History, Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, found on the New York Times Learning Network, students read excerpts from two recently discovered slave narrativ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0John Spencer Bassett: "Slavery in the State of North Carolina"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is part of their Documenting the American South (DocSouth) ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Sojourner Truth: "Narrative of Sojourner Truth"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Literary Analysis, Reading Comprehension, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is part of their Documenting the American South (DocSouth) ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Nat Turner: "The Confessions of Nat Turner"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, United States History, Reading Comprehension, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is part of their Documenting the American South (DocSouth) ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Documenting the American South: American Slave Writings
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literary Analysis, English-Language Arts, United States History, Reading Comprehension, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is part of their Documenting the American South (DocSouth) ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0What Are the Origins of American Slavery?
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: United States History, World History, History-Social ScienceThis essay, from the EDSITEment-reviewed Web site Digital History, assesses the origins of American slavery. One of ten essays f...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Was Slavery the Engine of Economic Growth?
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Economics, United States History, History-Social ScienceThis essay, from the EDSITEment-reviewed Web site Digital History, assesses the role that slavery played in U.S. economic growth...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Stateside Slavery: Addressing Slavery's Past on This Side of the Atlantic
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, United States History, World History, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students learn about President Bush's July 8, 2003 speech on slavery o...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0I Heard It Through the Grapevine: Evaluating the Differences between Oral and Written History
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: English-Language Arts, Reading Comprehension, United States History, History-Social ScienceIn this lesson, from the New York Times Learning Network, students read a narrative text that recounts the legacy of a family as...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Indiana Narratives, Volume V
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social ScienceThis resource, from American Memory at the Library of Congress, provides the text of several interviews with former slaves from ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0Comparing Portrayals of Slavery in Nineteenth-Century Photography and Literature
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: No subjects selected.Huck Finn’s moral journey parallels Mark Twain’s questions about slavery. Like the photographers of the nineteenth-century, Twa...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0