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Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkThe Adam Francis Plummer Diary: A Living History
Grades: 4 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryWebsite presents the diary of Adam Francis Plummer, born into slavery in 1819 in Maryland, in a digital format with a transcript...Contributor: Smithsonian EducationViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlavery's Opponents and Defenders
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, U.S. Constitution, American Democracy 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 / HyperLinkWanted Poster for Emily, a Runaway Slave
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThis resource, provided by the Ohio Historical Society, contains an image of an original wanted poster for a runaway slave. This...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkHow Slavery Helped Build a World Economy
Grades: 3 to 12Subjects: United States History, Economics, American Democracy, History-Social Science, GeographyIn this National Geographic News article, read about slavery in the United States. Most European colonial economies in the Ameri...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWas Slavery the Engine of Economic Growth?
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: United States History, Economics, 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkSlave Narratives: Constructing U.S. History Through Analyzing Primary Sources
Grades: 3 to 5Subjects: United States History, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, LiteratureIn 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 / HyperLinkAfricans in America : Judgment Day, 1831-1865
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: History-Social Science, United States HistoryThe Africans in America documentary series, from PBS, explores the impact of slavery on Americans, white and black, as they fo...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Are the Origins of American Slavery?
Grades: 5 to 12Subjects: United States History, History-Social Science, World HistoryThis essay, from the EDSITEment-reviewed Web site Digital History, assesses the origins of American slavery. One of ten essays f...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkRace and Slavery Petitions Project
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, The Civil Rights Movement, The Civil War & Reconstruction, History-Social ScienceRace 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 / HyperLinkSow the Seeds of Victory! Posters from the Food Administration During World War I
Grades: 8 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Visual Arts & Performing Arts, United States History, History-Social Science 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 / HyperLinkWhite Southerners' Defense of Slaveholding
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Career & Technical Ed, United States History, Arts, Media, & Entertainment 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
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkWhat Happened to Slaves When their Owners Died?
Grades: 7 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, Economics, Career & Technical Ed, United States History 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 / HyperLinkWhen Rice Was King
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, The Civil War & Reconstruction, Geography, History-Social Science, United StatesWhen 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 / HyperLinkJohn Spencer Bassett: "Slavery in the State of North Carolina"
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, United States History, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, Literary AnalysisThis resource, from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is part of their Documenting the American South (DocSouth) ...Contributor: ThinkfinityViews: 0Favorites: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkI Heard It Through the Grapevine: Evaluating the Differences between Oral and Written History
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, United States History, English-Language Arts, 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkNat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, The Civil War & Reconstruction, United States, History-Social Science, GeographyNat 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 / HyperLinkBorn in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, The Civil War & Reconstruction, History-Social ScienceBorn 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 / HyperLinkVoices from the Days of Slavery: Former Slaves Tell Their Stories
Grades: No grades selected.Subjects: United States History, The Civil War & Reconstruction, History-Social ScienceVoices 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 / HyperLinkOf Human Bondage: Exploring Perspectives on Slavery During the Civil War Using Primary and Secondary Sources
Grades: 6 to 12Subjects: Reading Comprehension, Writing Strategies, United States History, English-Language Arts, 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: 0
Resource Type: Website / HyperLinkFamilies in Bondage
Grades: 9 to 12Subjects: Writing Strategies, United States History, English-Language Arts, History-Social Science, HumanitiesThis 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