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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Making of African American Identity: Free Born

For Students 9th - 10th
A journal, an autobiography, and selections from narratives about the conditions experienced by free-born African Americans in the nineteenth century. They ask such questions as: How did African Americans construct identity in antebellum...
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Website
PBS

Pbs: Slave to Sharecropper

For Students 9th - 10th
This collection of resources examines the life and work of freed slaves after the Civil War. Includes questions and answers on sharecropping in the American South, as well as a personal account from a former slave who became a sharecropper.
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Website
Other

Alabama.gov: Reconstruction

For Students 9th - 10th
Learn facts about life in the state of Alabama after the Civil War.
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Unit Plan
Other

After Slavery Project: Race, Labor and Politics in Post Emancipation Carolinas

For Students 9th - 10th
This site is a collaborative work-in-progress involving a team of four scholars based in the US, Ireland and the UK. It consists of ten learning units on topics revolving around the emancipation of slaves in the American South following...