- PowerPoint on the Abolitionist Movement.
- Primary source readings ("The Abolitionist Crusade") and some questions.
- Video: When the Lion Wrote History--some questions.
- Excerpt of "My Bondage, My Freedom" as well as a speech from Douglass titled "The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro."
- Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl: Harriet Jacobs' slave narrative; we will read a few excerpts from that novel. Some information about her from the great website harrietjacobs.org:
After nearly seven years hiding in a tiny garret above her grandmother’s home, Harriet Ann Jacobs took a step other slaves dared to dream in 1842; she secretly boarded a boat in Edenton, N.C., bound for Philadelphia, New York and, eventually, freedom. The young slave woman’s flight, and the events leading up to it, are documented in heart-wrenching detail in her autobiography, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, Written by Herself, self-published in 1861 under the pseudonym Linda Brent.
A significant personal history by an African American woman, Harriet Jacobs’ story is as remarkable as the writer who tells it. During a time when it was unusual for slaves to read and write, self-publishing a first-hand account of slavery’s atrocities was extraordinary. That it was written by a woman, unprecedented.
A significant personal history by an African American woman, Harriet Jacobs’ story is as remarkable as the writer who tells it. During a time when it was unusual for slaves to read and write, self-publishing a first-hand account of slavery’s atrocities was extraordinary. That it was written by a woman, unprecedented.
- Here are guiding questions as we read this book! Remember to always point to specifics when answering questions. Pull quotes!
- In addition, you are responsible for the readings about the Fugitive Slave Law (and the questions that go along with them).
