Slavery

The 1800s: K-12 TLC Guide

African-American Heritage: K-12 TLC Guide African-American Slave Trade: K-12 TLC Guide

Slavery in Colonial America: K-12 TLC Guide

American Civil War: K-12 TLC Guide The Underground Railroad: K-12 TLC Guide

Civil Rights & Human Rights: K-12 TLC Guide Racism/Racial Discrimination: K-12 TLC Guide

Slavery in New Spain: K-12 TLC Guide

Abolition & Emancipation
American Slave Arts & Culture
Economics of Slavery
Maps
Slave Trade
The Underground Railroad

Historic Dates, Documents & Speeches

The Amistad Mutiny
1820 Missouri Compromise
1846-47: Wilmot Proviso
1850 Fugitive Slave Act
1854 Kansas-Nebraska Act
13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

January 11th: National Day of Human Trafficking Awareness

Slavery

Douglas, Stephen A.: K-12 TLC Guide.
Douglass, Frederick: K-12 TLC Guide.
Harper's Ferry/John Brown: K-12 TLC Guide.
Lincoln, Abraham: K-12 TLC Guide.
Lincoln and Race: K-12 TLC Guide.
Madison, James: K-12 TLC Guide.
Mott, Lucretia: K-12 TLC Guide.
Nazi-Era Slave Labor: K-12 TLC Guide.
Slavery in Connecticut: K-12 TLC Guide
Turner, Nat: K-12 TLC Guide.

03/02/1807: Congress Bans Importation of Slaves after Jan 1, 1808, Yale University.
African American Voices, Digital History.
Africans in America, PBS.
The American Anti-Slavery Society, U.S. Secretary of State.
Anti-slavery International.
Chronology on the History of Slavery and Racism.
Juneteenth Celebration.
Levi Jordan Plantation.
Library of Congress:
- 09/09/1739: Stono River Slave Rebellion.
- 09/20/1850: Washington, D.C. Slave Trade Abolished.
- 03/03/1859: Butler Slave Auction.
- The African-American Odyssey:
  - Slavery--The Peculiar Institution:
    - Flights to Freedom.
    - Other Liberation Strategies.
- Born in Slavery: Federal Writers' Project Narratives.
- Philadelphia Anti-slavery Convention: 12/4/1833.
  - Declaration of the Anti-slavery Convention.
- Slavery in the Capitol.
National Public Radio:
- 01/08/1811: America's Largest Slave Revolt.
- A Childhood of Slavery in Haiti (audio: 8:30).
- Descendants of a Slave See the Painting He Saved.
- Henry Clay and Slavery.
- Historical Interpretation Commentary (audio: 3:51).
- John Brown's Mixed Legacy (audio: 6:45).
- The Legacy of Slavery (audio: 5:30).
- Life At Jefferson's Monticello, As His Slaves Saw It.
- Lincoln's Evolving Thoughts on Slavery and Freedom
- Restitution for Descendants of Slaves? (audio: 8:30).
- Tales of Slavery.
- Virginia's Confederate History Month Offers Fresh Lesson in History's Power to Sting.
- Why the Electoral College Exists (audio: 5:00).
North American Slave Narratives, University of North Carolina.
Radio France International:

Slavery Seen through the Eyes of Modern Africans.

Slave Voices, Duke University.
Slavery and African American History, Knowledge Network Explorer.
Slavery in America, PBS.
Slavery In Massachusetts, Henry David Thoreau, Yale University.
Smithsonian Magazine:
- Ellen & William Craft's Great Escape from Slavery.
The Story of Africa, BBC.
"Testimony of the Canadian Fugitives", WWW Virtual Library.

Texas Slavery Project, University of Virginia.

University of Dayton
USA Slavery, Spartacus Educational.

Wilmot Proposal: K-12 TLC Guide.

Slavery

Abolition
&
Emancipation

13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution: K-12 TLC Guide.
Emancipation Proclamation: K-12 TLC Guide.
Historic Documents: K-12 TLC Guide.
Songs of the Abolitionists: K-12 TLC Guide.
Wilmot Proposal: K-12 TLC Guide.

Belvis, Segundo Ruiz: K-12 TLC Guide.
Brown, John: K-12 TLC Guide.
Coffin, Levi: K-12 TLC Guide.
Cuffe, Paul: K-12 TLC Guide.
Douglass, Frederick: K-12 TLC Guide.
Fee, John Gregg: K-12 TLC Guide.

Foster, Stephen and Abby, Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities

Garrison, William Lloyd: K-12 TLC Guide.
Greeley, Horace: K-12 TLC Guide
Grimk�, Sarah Moore: K-12 TLC Guide.

Lovejoy, Elijah P.: K-12 TLC Guide.

Lundy, Benjamin: K-12 TLC Guide.

Mott, Lucretia: K-12 TLC Guide.

Phillips, Wendall: K-12 TLC Guide.
Remond, Charles: K-12 TLC Guide.

Sumner, Charles: K-12 TLC Guide.

Walker, David: K-12 TLC Guide.

Wilberforce, William: K-12 TLC Guide.

02/15/1850: The Rescue of Fugitive Slave, Shadrach Minkins: K-12 TLC Guide.

09/13/1860: Abolitionist Minister Anthony Bewley Is Lynched in Fort Worth, TX,
Texas State Historical Association.

12/05/1861: Slavery Abolition Bills Introduced in Congress, TheHistoryNet.

03/24/1862: Cincinnati Audience Boos Speech by Abolitionist Wendall Phillips, The History Channel.

04/16/1862: Slavery Is Abolished in the District of Columbia: K-12 TLC Guide.

Abolishing Slavery in the British Empire, British National Archives.

Library of Congress:
- Abolition of Slavery in the District of Columbia: 1862.
- African-American Mosaic.
- African American Odyssey.
- Allan Pinkerton.
- Daniel Webster Favoring Slavery Compromise.
- Free Blacks.
- From Slavery to Freedom.
- Missouri Compromise: August 10, 1820.

K-12 TLC Teachable Moments

02/15/1850: The Rescue of Fugitive Slave, Shadrach Minkins .

09/28/1829: David Walker's Appeal Is First Published.

Slavery

The
Amistad Mutiny

Civil Rights Law: K-12 TLC Guide.
President Martin Van Buren: K-12 TLC Guide.
U.S. Supreme Court: K-12 TLC Guide.

African American Registry.
Amistad America, Inc.
The Amistad Research Center, Tulane University.
History Channel.
The Library of Congress:
- Slavery--The Peculiar Institution.
- Today in History: March 9.
National Public Radio:
- Amistad Replica Launched (audio: 12:30).
The Amistad Trials:
- National Archives and Records Administration.
  - Teaching Activity.
- The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
- University of Missouri-Kansas City.
Public Radio International:
- A Poetic Account of the Amistad Revolt.

Slavery

American Slave
Arts
and
Culture

Musical Instruments: K-12 TLC Guide.

Instruments, Music and Dance:
- Belizenet.
- PBS:
- Purdue University.
- The Society for Caribbean Studies (pdf).
- Thinkquest.
- United Nations.
- University of Pennsylvania.
- YouTube.

Slavery

Economics
of
Slavery

Economics: K-12 TLC Guide.

Digital History:
- The Economics of Slavery.
- Was Slavery the Engine of Economic Growth?
Slavery and Economic Development:

The Graduate Voice, Baruch College.
Northwestern University.

"That Species of Property", The Papers of George Washington.

Slavery

The History Channel:
On-This-Day:
- 08/28/1883: Slavery Banned throughout British Empire.
- 10/08/1991: Slave Burial Site Uncovered in Manhattan
Abraham Lincoln: K-12 TLC Guide:

06/17/1858: "A House Divided": K-12 TLC Guide.

02/27/1860: Cooper Union Speech: K-12 TLC Guide.

1864: The Emancipation Proclamation: K-12 TLC Guide.

The Constitution: K-12 TLC Guide:

The Bill of Rights: K-12 TLC Guide.

First Amendment: Speech, Press, Religion, Assembly.

Thirteenth Amendment: Abolishing Slavery.

Fourteenth Amendment: Equal Protection

Douglass Archives of American Public Address:

1782: Jefferson, Thomas -
"Commerce between Master and Slave".

1833: American Anti-Slavery Society Constitution.

1837: Calhoun, John C. - "Slavery a Positive Good".

1837: New York Plaindealer: "Blessings of Slavery".

1863, 1883: Whittier, John Greenleaf -
American Anti-Slavery Society Anniversaries.

April 14, 1865: Garrison, William -
"The Governing Passion of My Soul".

1874: Whittier, John Greenleaf -
"The Anti-Slavery Convention of 1833".

DRED SCOTT v. SANDFORD (1856): K-12 TLC Guide.

The Emancipation Proclamation: K-12 TLC Guide.

Fugitive Slave Act of 1850: K-12 TLC Guide.

Historic Documents and Books on the Internet, University of Southern California.

Indiana Act: Negroes, Mulattos, Servants, Slaves,
Conner Prairie.

Manumission of Slaves - 1835, Wayne County Government, IN.

The Massachusetts Personal Liberty Act (1855),
U.S. Secretary of State.

Speeches & Writings of Frederick Douglass: TLC Guide.

Slavery

Missouri Compromise
of 1820

Maine: K-12 TLC Guide.
Missouri: K-12 TLC Guide.

Kansas-Nebraska Act of 1854: K-12 TLC Guide:

Clay, Henry K-12 TLC Guide.

03/06/1820: Missouri Enabling Act, W.W. Norton.
African American Registry.
Columbia Encyclopedia.
Encyclopedia Britannica.
Fact Monster.
Fredricksburg.com.
History Channel:

K-12 TLC Teachable Moments

02/17/1820: The U.S. Senate Passes the Missouri Compromise.

Slavery

Kansas-
Nebraska
Act of 1854

Missouri Compromise: K-12 TLC Guide.

Abraham Lincoln on the Kansas-Nebraska Act and the Repeal of the Missouri Compromise: K-12 TLC Guide.

Slavery

University of Oregon:
- Status of Slavery in Original 13 States.
- Slavery in the American South: 1790-1860.
- The Missouri Compromise: 1820.
- Compromise of 1850: Status of Slavery.
- Kansas-Nebraska Act: 1854.
- Slave Crops in the American South: 1860.

Slavery

National Day
of
Human Trafficking
Awareness
January 11

GovTrack.us.
Human Trafficking and Sexual Exploitation.
National Association of Social Workers.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

Slavery

K-12 TLC Guide to Timelines & Chronologies

1831
Aug 21	Nat Turner Leads 3-Day Slave Rebellion in Southampton, VA
1862
Aug 20	Greeley Editorial Calls for Emancipation of All Slaves
1863
Aug 21	Southern Partisans Kill 150 Abolitionists in Lawrence, KS

Slavery

Primary:
- Place Called Freedom, Scott Russell Sanders,
  Thomas B. Allen (Illustrator).
Young Adult:
- Hurmence, Belinda: K-12 TLC Guide.
- By Secret Railway, Enid LaMonte Meadowcroft.
- Caleb's Choice, G. Clifton Wisler.
- The King's Shadow, Elizabeth Alder.
- Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt,
  Deborah Hopkinson
- True North: A Novel of the Underground Railroad,
  Kathryn Lasky.
- Up From Slavery, Booker T. Washington.
Adult:
- African Slavery In America, Thomas Paine.
- Fifty Years In Chains; Life of an American Slave, Charles Ball, University of North Carolina.
- The Interesting Narrative of Olaudah Equiano:
- A Journey in the Seaboard States (1856),
  Frederick Law Olmsted.
- Narrative Of The Life Of Frederick Douglass.
- The Souls Of Black Folk, W.E.B. Du Bois.
- Uncle Tom's Cabin, Stowe, Harriet Beecher:
  - History Channel.
  - Library of Congress.
  - Massachusetts Foundation for the Humanities.
  - Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture, University of Virginia.
  - Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site: TLC Guide.
  - Writer's Almanac.

Slavery

K-12 TLC Teachable Moments

12/06/1865: The 13th Amendment Is Ratified, Abolishing Slavery.


Attucks, Crispus Barbosa, Rui Brown, John Coffin, Levi Crandall, Prudence Douglass, Frederick Lincoln, Abraham Madison, James Powers, Harriet Stowe, Harriet Beecher Truth, Sojourner Tubman, Harriet Turner, Nat Van Buren, Martin Washington, Booker T. Wheatley, Phillis Whittier, John Greenleaf

Grades 8-12:
- The Historian's Sources, The Library of Congress.
Other:
- Michigan Historical Center:
  - Child of the Underground Railroad.
  - Paint a Quilt.
- The National Archives and Records Administration:
  - The Amistad Case.
  - Black Soldiers in the Civil War.
  - Fugitive from Labor Cases: Garnett, Honner.
- PBS.
- Wilmot Proviso, University of Virginia.

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This guide last edited 03/12/2012
This guide last revised 02/02/2009

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