Curated OER
Taking Up Arms and the Challenge of Slavery in the Revolutionary Era
Students examine a series of documents which discuss the contradiction in the Americans' rhetoric about slavery. They act as members of designated Committees of Correspondence in the five different colonies, communicating their...
Other
Slavery by Another Name
Read this detailed narrative to learn about the mistreatment of African Americans long after people thought slavery had ended after the Civil War, but actually persisted into the twentieth century. Based on original documents, photos,...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source: The Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs
This collection uses primary sources to explore Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl by Harriet Jacobs.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: Uncle Tom's Cabin Harriet Beecher Stowe
This collection uses primary sources to explore Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: Teacher Serve: Slave Resistance
Essay explores the beginnings of slave resistance and its various forms. Includes ideas for guiding a student discussion.
Digital History
Digital History: Enslavement
A very good description of how Africans were enslaved in Africa for sale to the Europeans. See how the introduction of European weapons changed the dynamic in West Africa.
PBS
Africans in America: Interior of a Slave Ship
This site describes how slaves were packed in the ships with barely enough room to sit or move, to maximize capacity.
Other
New York Historical Society: Slavery in New York
Take a tour of this exhibit on the history of slavery in New York City.
Other
Juneteenth: The Middle Passage
Moving description of the Middle Passage and African American trauma through the perspective of the artist, Tom Feelings.
Ibis Communications
Eyewitness to History: Aboard a Slave Ship, 1829
A historically significant account of what Reverend Robert Walsh observed on a slave ship off the African coast in 1829.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1844 1877: The Slave Economy
The South relied on slavery heavily for economic prosperity and used wealth as a way to justify enslavement practices.