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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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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.