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Lesson Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: The Religious Roots of Abolition

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson that looks at the role of Christianity in the fight to abolish slavery in the United States.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Frederick Douglass: Appendix to Narrative of the Life of Am. Slave

For Teachers 9th - 10th
The appendix to Frederick Douglass's well-known autobiography in which he castigates Americans' embrace of Christianity as hypocritical.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Triumph of Nationalism: America, 1815 1850: Religion

For Students 9th - 10th Standards
A collection of nine primary resources including historical documents, literary texts, visual images, and maps illuminated and contextualized by notes, thematic questions, and text-specific discussion questions for classroom instruction...
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: George Fitzhugh: Sociology for the South: 1854: Religion

For Students 9th - 10th
Two chapters from an apologist for slavery and his claims that slavery is Biblically justified and that church-state separation would lead to moral decay.