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Primary
Library of Congress

Loc: African American Mosaic: Conflict of Abolition and Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
Historical documents trace how the abolitionists virulently decried slavery and denounced those who supported it.
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Lesson Plan
PBS

Pbs Learning Media: Harriet Tubman: Abolition Activist

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
In this lesson, by examining two primary sources and watching a short video, students will become familiar with the remarkable bravery and extraordinary accomplishments of the "Moses of her people," Harriet Tubman.
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Article
Social Studies for Kids

Social Studies for Kids: Sojourner Truth: Voice for Abolition and Women

For Students 1st - 5th
Born into slavery and never able to read or write, Sojourner Truth nonetheless was a tired and famous advocate for both abolition and women's voting rights.
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Interactive
Scholastic

Scholastic History Mystery: Abolition

For Students 3rd - 8th
History puzzle in which students play a game to solve a mystery and name the Abolitionist.
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Primary
US National Archives

Our Documents: 13th Amendment to the u.s. Constitution: Abolition of Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
Take a look at an image of the constitutional amendment that put an end to slavery in the United States. Interactive image is accompanied by an overview of the amendment's inception and adoption, as well as document transcript.
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Website
Other

The Amistad Committee: Yale, Slavery & Abolition

For Students 9th - 10th
This essay explores Yale University's relationship to slavery. It seeks to answer questions such as why did Yale name most of its colleges after slave owners and pro-slavery leaders? Included is a downloadable PDF, timeline, map of Yale,...
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Lesson Plan
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: America in Class: A Pro Slavery Argument, 1857

For Teachers 9th - 10th
A lesson that explores the argumments made by pro-slavery proponents in the United States prior to abolition.
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Website
United Nations

Unesco: The Slave Route

For Students 9th - 10th
An excellent set of resources on slavery and the slave trade. Looks at artists' perceptions, interviews with historians and others, the Transatlantic Slave Trade, trade in the Indian Ocean, resistance and abolition, trade in the...
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Primary
University of South Florida

Civil Rights and Conflict Selected Speeches: No Compromise With Evil of Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
A speech given by William Lloyd Garrison in 1854 in which he advocates for the abolition of slavery. The readability level, word count, and citation are provided. An audio rendition of the speech can be heard as well as downloaded in mp3...
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Primary
Teaching American History

Teaching American History: Manifesto: American Anti Slavery Society

For Students 9th - 10th
Find the goals of the American Anti-Slavery Society, founded in 1833 by abolitionists in Philadelphia. The object of the group was the immediate abolition of slavery.
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Unit Plan
Annenberg Foundation

Annenberg Learner: America's History in the Making: Antebellum Reform

For Teachers 9th - 10th
Nineteenth century United States saw the creation of reform movements: temperance, abolition, school and prison reform, as well as others. This unit traces the emergence of reform movements instigated by the Second Great Awakening and...
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Unit Plan
CommonLit

Common Lit: "Frederick Douglass: A Biography" by National Park Service

For Students 7th - 8th
CommonLit.org is a wonderful resource to use in a Language Arts classroom. Each story or article is accompanied by guided reading questions, assessment questions, and discussion questions. In addition, students can click on words to see...
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Unit Plan
The Newberry Library

Newberry Library: Slavery, Civil War, and the "New Birth of Freedom"

For Students 9th - 10th
Newberry Library presents primary source materials from which students learn about the arguments made for abolition before the Civil War, how the appeals against slavery were framed, and what freedom would mean for the South and the...
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Website
PBS

Pbs: God in America: The Black Church

For Students 9th - 10th
A good look at the role of the church and religion in the history of African Americans. Find out the church's importance in the abolition movement and the civil rights movement.
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Handout
National Women’s History Museum

National Women's History Museum: Sojourner Truth

For Students 9th - 10th
A former slave, Sojourner Truth was an advocate for abolition, temperance, and civil and women's rights in the 19th century.
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Handout
Understanding Slavery Initiative

Understanding Slavery Initiative: Emancipation

For Students 9th - 10th
Although the British Parliament passed the Abolition of Slavery Act in August 1833, the trade continued, and for many years there were exceptions to abolition. Learn how the British government attempted to prevent the slave trade from...
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Website
BBC

Bbc History: British History: Empire: British Anti Slavery

For Students 9th - 10th
A five-part article describing the British antislave trade movement. All major figures in the abolition movement discussed. Archived.
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Handout
US Senate

Historical Minutes: Gag Rule: March 16, 1836

For Students 9th - 10th
A look at how the Senate in 1836 imposed a gag rule on petitions that advocated the abolition of slavery. Information is from "Arguing about Slavery" by William Lee Miller.
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Website
Other

William Lloyd Garrison: Abolitionist and Leader

For Students 9th - 10th
A several page article about William Lloyd Garrison and his actions in the abolition of slavery.
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Primary
National Humanities Center

National Humanities Center: Toolbox Library: Sierra Leone, Making of African American Identity: V. 1

For Students 9th - 10th
An eighteenth-century map, several illustrations by Europeans of Africans from Sierra Leone, and two eighteenth-century narratives depicting Sierra Leone natives through the eyes of two British physicians who describe the peoples they...
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Primary
National Constitution Center

National Constitution Center: Thirteenth Amendment [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
Primary source document, informational text and questions for discussion included for students studying issues surrounding the abolition of slavery and the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
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Article
University of Virginia

Virginia Center for Digital History: United States Expansion, 1800 1860

For Students 9th - 10th
An essay that looks at issues affecting Americans leading up to the Civil War. These included economic changes that led to new ideological, social, cultural, and political issues that further divided the nation along moral and regional...
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Handout
Other

Basd: Reconstruction [Pdf]

For Students 9th - 10th
A very clear document outlining the various reconstruction plans, the problems for both whites and blacks during Reconstruction, and the amendments added concerning the abolition of slavery, civil rights, and suffrage. Requires Adobe...
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Handout
Other

Unitarian Universalist Biographical Dictionary: Lydia Maria Child

For Students 9th - 10th
Read about Lydia Child's involvement with the abolition movement and her work in the 19th century women's suffrage movement.

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