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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWas Slavery the Engine of Economic Growth?
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: Economics, History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis essay, from the EDSITEment-reviewed Web site Digital History, assesses the role that slavery played in U.S. economic growth...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFamilies in Bondage
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Humanities, United States History, History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, English-Language ArtsThis two-part lesson from EDSITEment draws on letters written by African Americans in slavery and by free blacks to loved ones s...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkPerspectives on the Slave Narrative
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Literature, History-Social Science, Writing Strategies and 2 additional..This lesson, from EDSITEment, introduces students to one of the most widely-read genres of 19th-century American literature and ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWho Was Cinque?
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, English-Language Arts, American DemocracyThis lesson, from EDSITEment, focuses on Cinque, the leader of the 1839 Amistad revolt. The lesson draws on a variety of documen...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: United States History, Literature, History-Social Science, English-Language ArtsIn this lesson, from EDSITEment, students research narratives from the Federal Writers' Project and describe the lives of former...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkReliving History Through Slave Narratives
Grades: 5 to 8Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, Theatre, Visual ArtsIn this ARTSEDGE lesson, students read narratives from former slaves that were recorded in the 1930's as part of the Federal Wri...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlavery's Opponents and Defenders
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Literature, History-Social Science, U.S. Constitution, United States History and 2 additional..In this lesson, one of a multi-part unit from EDSITEment, students explore the wide-ranging debate over American slavery by pres...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkBorn in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionBorn in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 offers 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhen Rice Was King
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Geography, United States, The Civil War & ReconstructionWhen Rice Was King concentrates on Georgetown County, South Carolina, where rice, rather than cotton, was the principal commerci...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRace and Slavery Petitions Project
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: The Civil Rights Movement, United States History, History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionRace and Slavery Petitions Project presents more than two dozen legislative and county court petitions that were filed in southe...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkVoices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionVoices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories features interviews with 23 former slaves (the oldest was 130 ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, Geography, United States, The Civil War & ReconstructionNat Turner: A Troublesome Property is the companion website of a film that examines the story of Turner and his revolt and how t...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlavery and Abolition
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionSlavery and Abolition presents two dozen publications written in the 19th century about slavery in America. It includes first-p...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlaves and the Courts, 1740-1860
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, The Civil War & ReconstructionSlaves and the Courts, 1740-1860 presents over 100 books and pamphlets on experiences of African and African-American slaves in ...Contributor: Federal Resources for Educational ExcellenceViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Amistad Case
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, American DemocracyIn February of 1839, Portuguese slave hunters abducted a large group of Africans from Sierra Leone and shipped them to Havana, C...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSow the Seeds of Victory! Posters from the Food Administration During World War I
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Writing Strategies, United States History, English-Language Arts and 3 additional..This lesson relates to Article II, Section 2.1 , of the U.S. Constitution, which establishes the president as commander in chief...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkColonization
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, World HistoryThis exhibit, from the Library of Congress, explores the colonization movement to send free African-Americans to Africa as an al...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Happened to Slaves When their Owners Died?
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: Economics, History-Social Science, Career & Technical Ed, English-Language Arts and 6 additional..This resource, from The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War Project, University of Virginia, feature...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLink"Been Here So Long": Lesson Plans
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, English-Language Arts, American DemocracyThis resource is comprised of three lesson plans for use with primary source materials, namely the American Slave Narratives and...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhite Southerners' Defense of Slaveholding
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, Career & Technical Ed, Writing Strategies, Psychology and 5 additional..This resource, from The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War Project, University of Virginia, feature...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0