Class Resources

I will add helpful resources here on this page that you can explore.

The first link is the Norton Student Site that accompanies the main text I am teaching from called America: A Narrative History by David Emory Shi. Here you can find interactive maps, primary sources I will certainly use for our class, and videos from the author going over the chapters. While you do not need to have your own copy of this book, many of our lessons will come from this text and this site will prove very helpful for research and review.



Slavery Narratives from The Library of Congress: https://www.loc.gov/collections/slave-narratives-from-the-federal-writers-project-1936-to-1938/about-this-collection/

There are tons of stories here. Find one and learn what you can. What does their story tell you about their life? Their education? Their family? Their daily tasks? Their religious beliefs or practices? What else is important?


 This link is from Port Cities Bristol and includes an excerpt from a book with a first-person narrative.
http://www.discoveringbristol.org.uk/slavery/routes/from-africa-to-america/ship-journals/enslaved-african-account/


George Washington's slave Hercules.
http://www.mountvernon.org/digital-encyclopedia/article/hercules/


Frederick Douglass
http://utc.iath.virginia.edu/abolitn/dougnarrhp.html

Other great and reliable sources:

http://library.csun.edu/SCA/Peek-in-the-Stacks/slave-narratives


http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/chronautobio.html


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