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Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (New York Public Library)
http://www.nypl.org/research/sc/digital.html
Contains links to images of African Americans in the 19th century, works by African American women writers of the 19th century, and other sources.

The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/
Hundreds of images—maps, drawings, prints, photographs…—relating to Atlantic slavery from the 14th through 19th centuries. Usefully categorized, each image has a brief contextualizing comment and a clear citation of its date, producer, and archival location.

Documenting the South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/
The homepage for a University of North Carolina project that explores a wide variety of topics in southern history. Most pertinent to American slavery and abolition is its comprehensive North American Slave Narrative Collection. Clicking on the homepage’s “collections” link will lead you to links for this and the other specific topical collections.

Virginia Center for Digital History
http://www.vcdh.virginia.edu/index.html
This is the homepage for a University of Virginia project that explores a wide range of historical topics. Those most relevant to African American history are the Valley of the Shadow (Civil War); the Geography of Slavery (18th century runaway ads); and Race and Place: An African American Community under Jim Crow. These and other collections can be linked from the “Projects” link on the homepage. Other homepage links lead you to lesson plans and other resources.

Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html
The homepage for the acclaimed PBS 4-part documentary on the history of slavery in America from the 17th century through the Civil War. Includes documents, images, outline and full text of the videos, and a variety of teacher resources. Much of the material is useful even without showing the films in class.

Selected images of African Americans from the Africans in America website
Negative:

Clay, “Is Mis Dinah at Home?” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h486.html
Clay, “Grand Bobalition” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h487.html
Clay, “A Black Charge” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h488.html
Svinin, “Black People’s Prayer Meeting” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h253.html

Positive (or critical of slavery):

Print type of female slave supplicant http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h1586.html
Kidnapping free Negroes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h510.html
Flogging a slave http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1528.html
Man and a Brother medallion http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2h67.html

Accurate:

Cincinnati African Church http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h88.html
Portrait of Jarena Lee http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h91.html
Portrait of Richard Allen http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h98.html
Portrait of Sara Allen http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h476.html
Portrait of Absalom Jones http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h85.html
Krimmel, “Fourth of July” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h467.html
Portrait of Morris Brown http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h96.html
Portrait of James Forten http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part3/3h328.html
Slave quarters http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1540.html
Slave market http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1562.html
Slave nurse and white baby http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h3140.html
Slaveholding family http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1582.html
Portrait of Henry Highland Garnet http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2949.html
PA Antislavery Society Exec Committee (Robert Purvis in front row) http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1544.html
Portrait of Frederick Douglass http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2962.html
Expulsion of abolitionists from Fremont Temple Boston http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1574.html
Portrait of Harriet Tubman http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h2961.html
Portrait of Dred Scott http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1532.html
South Carolina slaves, 1862 http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1565.html
4th US Colored Infantry http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4h1526.html

Flight to Freedom website:
http://ssad.bowdoin.edu:9780/projects/flighttofreedom/intro.shtml
An underground railroad simulation that asks students to take on the persona of an enslaved person weighing options for escape, contacting family members, etc. It makes use of the texts of actual slave narratives in describing what a “fugitive” encounters in the course of the simulation. Fairly limited in its sophistication and its educational value.

Ann Crocker Lesson Plan for African Americans in the Early Republic
http://www.oah.org/pubs/magazine/earlyrepublic/crocker.html
The full text of this lesson plan from the Organization of American Historians Magazine of History is included in the binder prepared for Institute participants. You should explore other areas of the Magazine, which is designed to present both content and pedagogical materials for precollegiate and collegiate teachers of American History.

Freedmen and Southern Society Project
http://www.history.umd.edu/Freedmen/fssphome.htm
A project from the University of Maryland that focuses on African Americans’ experiences in the era of Emancipation (ca.1860-1880). Contains a range of high quality primary and secondary materials.

From Revolution to Reconstruction: A Hypertext on American History
http://odur.let.rug.nl/%7eusa/index.htm
Site from the University of Groningen in the Netherlands contains three concise and useful online “textbooks” on American History, Government, and Literature, as well as links to many documents and other materials.

Malinda Paris UGRR lesson plan
http://www.michigan.gov/hal/0,1607,7-160-17451_18670_18793-52901--,00.html
A lesson plan dealing with the UGRR in Michigan from the state’s official website. Links in the menu on the right side of the screen provide some contextual material and the “Memorial” that is the central document in the lesson plan.

Sojourner Truth Institute
http://www.sojournertruth.org/
Website for Battle Creek’s Sojourner truth Institute contains a lot of information about the Institute, as well as the texts of some of Truth’s speeches under the “library” link.

Black Abolitionist Archive
http://www.dalnet.lib.mi.us/gsdl/cgi-bin/library?p=about&c=baa
Website from the University of Detroit Mercy that allows for the searching of hundreds of abolitionist speeches reprinted in antebellum pamphlets and newspapers. The entire database is searchable by subject, keyword, person, newspaper, or organization. The database will soon also contain a similar database of antebellum newspaper editorials related to abolitionism and slavery.

Exploring Amistad
http://academic.sun.ac.za/forlang/bergman/real/amistad/history/msp/main_wel.htm
http://amistad.mysticseaport.org/teaching/welcome.html
Both of the above links relate to the fascinating events surrounding the so-called Amistad incident of 1839, when a slave ship was taken over by the captives on board and ended up landing in Connecticut. The subsequent court cases and diplomatic exchanges are extremely interesting events for understanding slavery in an international and legal context. The first link leads to a wide range of sources about the people, places, and issues involved. The second link leads specifically to teaching resources relating to these events.

African Americans in Antebellum Boston
http://www.primaryresearch.org/bh/
This is one of several sites connected to projects conducted by students at Beverley (Mass.) High School. This site includes a lot of digitized primary sources like tax records, maps, government reports, city directory, petitions, etc. It also contains over 800 selected articles from William Lloyd Garrison’s abolitionist paper, The Liberator, which is perhaps the single most important antebellum abolitionist newspaper.

Michigan County Histories
http://www.hti.umich.edu/m/micounty/
An extremely useful site for bringing local and regional history to your students. There are full text, searchable digitizations of 192 county histories from Michigan counties published between 1866 and 1926.

Michigan Manual of Freedmen’s Progress
http://www.wmich.edu/library/digi/archives/freedmen.php
A recently digitized version of a 1915 book that provides lots of biographical information about important African Americans in Michigan, as well as material on churches, politics, institutions and organizations, African American military service, and more. An interesting resources that partly makes up for the overall neglect of African Americans in most of the county histories.

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