SLAVERY & ABOLITION INFO
Check out the links below for more information...it might spark some ideas for additional credit pieces in your history packets. Be sure to look at the AC suggestions/questions for this unit.
BACKGROUND INFO
- United Streaming has an excellent collection of streaming video on various topics related to Black History Month (February)
- A brief history of the African Methodist Episcopal Church
- Who was Reverend Richard Allen?
- African American history in the griot tradition
- "From Slavery to Civil Rights" interactive timeline at the Library of Congress
- "African and African American Linkages" - a college course by Prof. Brenda Plummer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
- The Story of Africa - Slavery site at BBC.com
- "The Slave Trade" Flash game--make me walk the plank!
TRIANGULAR TRADE AND THE MIDDLE PASSAGE
- Breaking the Silence, Learning about the Transatlantic Slave Trade at AntiSlavery.org
- Captive Passage exhibit at The Mariners' Museum in Newport News, Virginia
- The peculiar institution and the Atlantic slave trade
- The country of Belize and the slave trade
SLAVE SHIPS & THE AMISTAD
- Exploring Amistad at Mystic Seaport at the Mystic Seaport Museum of America and the Sea in Mystic, Connecticut
- "UNESCO Slavery Remembrance - Amistad Arrives at Liverpool Docks" article from August, 2007
WILLIAM LLOYD GARRISON & OTHER ABOLITIONISTS
- AMAZING site for William Lloyd Garrison's The Liberator
- A history of The Liberator
- Words of Thunder exhibit and resources at the Museum of Afro-American History and the Boston Library
- Author Lydia Maria Child was close friends with David Ruggles and wrote a famous song
- The 1808 act of Congress prohibiting the importation of slaves to the United States
ABOLITION IN BRITAIN
- Article from The Oregonian newspaper about the anniversary of the British abolition of slavery
- Interview with director Michael Apted and writer Eric Metaxas at NPR about British abolitionist William Wilberforce - hear the podcast
- Amazing Grace - website for the film
- Info on Wilberforce University--an American university named after William Wilberforce
- Ending Slavery in Britain at NPR - hear the podcast, and be sure to check out the two links below the story
- "The 200th-year Anniversary of the Abolition of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade" by Prof. Geoff Palmer at the Freedom For All site
- British commemorative stamps from the Royal Mail in honor of notable abolitionists
- Scotland and the Slave Trade: 2007 Bicentenary of the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act from the government of Scotland
- The International Slavery Museum in Liverpool, England
- Breaking the Chains "commemorat[es] the bi-centenary of the abolition of the slave trade"
FAITH RINGGOLD & THE MODERN CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- Faith Ringgold's personal website
- Cool site at Thinkquest.org on the Civil Rights Movement, including photo gallery and a timeline of civil rights in the U.S.
SLAVES, AUCTIONS, AND PLANTATION LIFE
- Slavery in America site based on the series and the book Slavery and the Making of America
- Slavery and the Making of America website from PBS
- Newspaper article about slaves educating themselves, from the Cleveland Gazette September 1883
- Pamphlet about cotton entitled "Cheap Cotton by Free Labor" supporting the continuation of slavery and a war with the North
- Cover image from sheet music about "cotton pickin'" from 1918
- Part of the "Winedale Story" at the University of Texas at Austin
- African American Oral History at Virginia Commonwealth University
- Information and assignments from a class on African Americans in the early 20th century the Dalton School
- Maps of Liberia from the American Colonization Society
- Image of a bill of sale for slaves from the Brooklyn Public Library
- Abolition of the Atlantic Slave Trade in the United States at American University
- Who was Elijah Parish Lovejoy?
- photograph of a slave auction on Maryland
- What is Lynch Law?
SLAVES & THEIR EXPERIENCES: DOUGLASS, TRUTH, EQUIANO
- Collection of the Frederick Douglass papers at the Library of Congress
- University of Rochester (New York) Frederick Douglass Project site
- Charles Remond Douglass, son of Frederick Douglass
- Zoom in on this graphic to read more about Frederick Douglass's last surviving relative, a graduate of Harvard under President Charles William Eliot (T.S. Eliot's cousin); WEB DuBois and Booker T. Washington also studied at Harvard under CW Eliot.
- Info about Olaudah Equiano and his personal slave narrative
- Biography of Olaudah Equiano
