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Slavery & THE Construction of Race

What is freedom? How and why is freedom denied to certain groups of people?
How was the idea of race constructed in the United States?
   
These sources include information about daily life under slavery, mostly in the South:
  • http://spartacus-educational.com/USAslavery.htm
  • http://quatr.us/northamerica/after1500/people/slavery2.htm
  • ​http://www.crf-usa.org/black-history-month/slavery-in-the-american-south
  • http://www.learnnc.org/lp/editions/nchist-antebellum/5602
  • http://www.ushistory.org/us/27b.asp
  • http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/plantation_life.htm
  • http://www.ducksters.com/history/colonial_america/slavery.php

These sources have information about different aspects of slavery:
  • This website has information about many aspects of slavery.
  • PBS offers a variety of resources about slavery. 
  • Scholastic has activities that help us learn about life in slavery and the Underground Railroad.

These resources focus on the Underground Railroad:
  • http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h481.html
  • http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2944.html
  • http://pathways.thinkport.org/about/about1.cfm

These sources are about Abolitionists:
  • Biography.com has biographies of many different abolitionists.
  • Scroll down on this website to the heading "Campaigners Against Slavery" for a list of biographies of many different abolitionists.
  • Freedom Center's website has short biographies of different abolitionists.  See the list of headings on the right side of the page.
  • This website shares slides with short biographies of some abolitionists.  Click the white arrows to scroll through the slides.
  • This website posts biographies of women abolitionists.  Scroll down to read the headings of each post; click the green NEXT button to see more.
  • Scroll down on this website to find headings with bios of Harriet Tubman, Fredrick Douglass, and John Brown.
  • The David Walker Memorial Project website has a biography of David Walker, and here are excerpts from his most famous piece of writing, "Appeal to the Colored Citizens of the World."
  • Here is a biography of William Still.
  • Here is a biography of Maria Stewart.
  • Here is a post about Angelina and Sarah Grimke.
  • This is an article about Lucretia Mott.
These websites share the voices of former slaves:
  • On this site, click on a box to hear a person tell their story.
  • On this site, click a person's name in yellow in the upper left of the screen. The audio may not work, but you can read the person's words.
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