Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: Torn in Two: Mapping the American Civil War
This exhibition tells the story of the American Civil War both nationally and locally in Boston, Massachusetts, through maps, documents, letters, and other primary sources.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Slavery and the American Founding
In this lesson plan, students will consider "Slavery and the American Founding: The "Inconsistency not to be excused"." The plan includes worksheets and other student materials that can be found under the resource tab.
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Wwhp: American Anti Slavery Society
A good review of the evolution of the support for the abolition of slavery from the first anti-slavery organization formed by the Quakers to the support for Abraham Lincoln as president. Focus is on the American Anti-Slavery Society and...
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Accessible Archives: National Anti Slavery Standard
The National Anti-Slavery Standard was a weekly newspaper published by the abolitionist group, the American Anti-Slavery Society. How it was established and its history are described.
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Mlk Task Force: Conflict Over Slavery, Texas Revolution, Mexican American War
Article with maps on how the conflict over slavery led to a revolution in Texas and ultimately, the war against Mexico.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1844 1877: Life After Slavery for African Americans
Overview of life after slavery for African Americans.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Slavery and Catholicism
This unit teaches students about the history of the Catholic Church and slavery in the United States. This unit consists of lesson plans for five, forty-minute class periods. The goal is for students to gain critical knowledge of the...
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Slavery and Catholicism
This unit teaches students about the history of the Catholic Church and slavery in the United States. This unit consists of lesson plans for five, forty-minute class periods. The goal is for students to gain critical knowledge of the...
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: Extension of Slavery
Outline on the extension of slavery and U.S. westward expansion, touching on the development of the cotton gin, Northwest Ordinance and Missouri Compromise.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University: Slavery at School
This unit teaches students about the history of the Catholic Church and slavery in the United States. The goal is for students to gain critical knowledge of the Catholic Church and Catholics' contradictory roles during the age of...
Texas State Historical Association
Texas State Historical Association: Slavery
Find out why Texas was the last frontier of slavery in the United States during the middle of the nineteenth century.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Slavery & Making of America: The Slave Experience: Men, Women & Gender
Learn about issues related to slave gender roles at this PBS series site that features illustrations and documents dating back to the Colonial, Antebellum, and Reconstruction periods in American history.
PBS
Wnet: Thirteen: Slavery & Making of America: Imagining Freedom During/after Civil War
In this interactive game, students are presented with a political drawings and cartoons from the period 1860-1877, and they must choose which historical event related to the end of slavery best matches each image.
Smithsonian Institution
National Museum of American History: Slave Life and the Underground Railroad
A brief summary of the history of African American slavery and the Underground Railroad. Activities and books pertaining to slave life, plantations, and the Underground Railroad are suggested.
Read Works
Read Works: Famous African Americans Frederick Douglass
[Free Registration/Login Required] This passage contains biographical information about the famous African American abolitionist and former slave, Frederick Douglass. This passage is a stand-alone curricular piece that reinforces...
Art Institute of Chicago
Art Institute of Chicago: Art Access: American Art to 1900
Study works of American art from the eighteen and nineteenth centuries. Works in a variety of media, including the decorative arts, are represented as are pieces by some of America's best-known artists: Copley, Church, Homer, and...
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: American Civil War: African American Lives
Collection of digital resources gathered from public libraries, archives, and museums about African American lives in the Civil War. Here you can discover the variety of African American experiences of the Civil War.
CommonLit
Common Lit: Text Sets: The American Colonies
Collection of 14 Grade-Leveled texts (4-11) on the topic "The American Colonies." What was life like for European settlers in the New World? How did American colonies function before the Revolutionary War? Explore life in the...
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: African Americans in the Early Republic
A quick comprehension check over African Americans in the early republic of the United States.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1800 1848: African Americans in the Early Republic
Learn about African Americans in the early republic.
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Virginia Center for Digital History: Texas Slavery Project
The Texas Slavery Project takes a deep look at the expansion of slavery in the borderlands between the United States and Mexico in the years between 1837 and 1845.
Other
Digital Schomburg Images: Slavery
A collection of 41 images depicting African American slaves in the Civil War era from the New York Public Library.
University of North Carolina
Documenting the American South: Thirty Years a Slave
From the extensive site, "Documenting the American South," read Louis Hughes' "Thirty Years a Slave: From Bondage to Freedom: The Institution of Slavery as Seen on the Plantation and in the Home of the Planter," which was originally...
Lumen Learning
Lumen: American Literature: Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe
This is the text and audio of the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin by Harriet Beecher Stowe, an anti-slavery novel published in 1852, that was said to "helped lay the groundwork for the Civil War." It was the best-selling novel of the 19th...
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