History Resources

Daina Ramey Berry & Leslie Harris - "Sexuality and Slavery: Reclaiming Intimate Histories in the Americas"

Video

Tamika Nunley - "At the Threshold of Liberty: Women, Slavery, and Shifting Identities in Washington, D.C."

Video

Ilyon Woo - "Master Slave Husband Wife: An Epic Journey From Slavery to Freedom"

Video

Foreign Languages, Geography

"I love you but hate slavery": Frederick Douglass to his former owner, Hugh Auld, ca. 1860

Spotlight on: Primary Source

9, 10, 11, 12, 13+

John Brown, Abolitionist: The Man Who Killed Slavery, Sparked the Civil War, and Seeded Civil Rights

Video

Government and Civics

Marcus Nevius - "City of Refuge: Slavery and Petit Marronage in the Great Dismal Swamp, 1763–1856"

Video

David Waldstreicher - "The Odyssey of Phillis Wheatley: A Poet's Journeys through American Slavery and Independence"

Video

Art, Foreign Languages, Literature, Religion and Philosophy, World History

Julie Winch - "Between Slavery and Freedom: Free People of Color in America From Settlement to the Civil War"

Video

Richard J. M. Blackett - "The Captive's Quest for Freedom: Fugitive Slaves, the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, and the Politics of Slavery"

Video

Militancy and the Abolitionist Movement

Lesson Plan

9, 10, 11, 12