Ibis Communications
Eye Witness to History: Escape From Slavery, 1838
Excerpts from the narrative of Frederick Douglass' escape from slavery in 1838. Includes photographs and references.
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Digital Text: My Escape From Slavery
This site provides a narrative of Frederick Douglass' escape from slavery.
Teaching American History
Teaching American History: The Future of the Colored Race
Full text to Frederick Douglass's essay "The Future of the Colored Race."
University of Virginia Library
Prism: Douglass Prism
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read an excerpt from Frederick Douglass' narrative and highlight details that show pathos in blue, antithesis in red, and catalog in green.
Curated OER
Frederick Douglass
Excerpts from the narrative of Frederick Douglass' escape from slavery in 1838. Includes photographs and references. Provided by EyeWitness to History.
ClassFlow
Class Flow: African Heritage: Frederick Douglass
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart aims to help students understand how Frederick Douglass's writing painted a powerfully negative portrait of life on southern plantations. It uses video as well as text to inform students.
Black Past
Black Past: Douglass, Frederick
This encyclopedia entry gives a brief overview of the inspirational life of Fredrick Douglass, abolitionist, essayist, and promoter of rights for everyone. There are references to several of his stirring essays.
C3 Teachers
C3 Teachers: u.s. History Module: Is Freedom Free? [Pdf]
A comprehensive learning module on the impact of emancipation on ex-slaves that includes three supporting questions accompanied by formative tasks and primary source materials, followed by a summative performance task. Topics covered...
PBS
The Meaning of July Fourth for the Negro
This PBS site provides an introduction and the full text to the speech written and given by Frederick Douglass on July 5, 1853 commemorating the signing of the Declaration of Independence.
Yale University
Avalon Project: African Americans Biography, Autobiography and History
Five primary source materials on African American history: I Have a Dream by Martin Luther King, Jr., My Bondage and Freedom by Frederick Douglass, The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, The Souls of Black Folk by W.E.B. Du Bois, Up From...
PBS
Pbs: Literature & Life: From Freedom to Slavery
Some of the African-American writers and poets who spoke out eloquently about their experiences of slavery in the 1700s and 1800s are featured in this section of Literature & Life. Read powerful first-person accounts of Harriet...
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New York History Net: The Gerrit Smith Virtual Museum
Find a biography and primary source documents about Gerrit Smith, who was a leader of anti-slavery activities in Syracuse, and nationally. He converted Frederick Douglass to political abolitionism and helped to finance his work.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: "What to the Slave Is the Fourth of July?"
Explores the argument made by Frederick Douglass and his appeals to convince northern whites to oppose slavery and favor abolition. Lesson content includes resources for both teachers and students.
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like Historians: Emancipation Proclamation
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learners read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry instructional activity allows students consider whether Abraham Lincoln freed the...
Stanford University
Sheg: Document Based History: Reading Like a Historian: Woman Suffrage
[Free Registration/Login Required] Students read primary source documents to solve a problem surrounding a historical question. This document-based inquiry lesson allows students to explore the broad context of the women's suffrage...
Huntington Library
Huntington Library: A Literature of Democracy [Pdf]
In this lesson plan, 11th graders explore the ideas of Ralph Waldo Emerson and his call for literature that was uniquely American. They then consider how Emerson would have responded to writings by Henry Thoreau, Frederick Douglass,...
University of Virginia Library
Prism: Chapter 4 With Mr. Gore
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read an excerpt from Frederick Douglass' narrative and highlight details that show pathos in blue, anaphora in red, and catalogue in green.
University of Virginia Library
Prism: Fd Masters
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read an excerpt from Frederick Douglass' narrative and highlight details that show pathos in blue, catalogue in red, and metaphor in green.
University of Virginia Library
Prism: "Sam and Jack" Visualization
[Free Registration/Login Required] See the results of how users have highlighted an excerpt from Frederick Douglass' narrative. Details that show pathos are blue while details that show catalogue are red and details that show epistrophe...
University of Virginia Library
Prism: Narrative of Life
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read an excerpt from Frederick Douglass' narrative and highlight details that show pathos in blue, enlightenment in red, and contrast in green.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Introducing the Essay: Twain, Douglass and American Non Fiction
This lesson plan serves as an introduction to American literary non-fiction writing and focuses primarily on teaching some basic approaches to recognizing rhetorical strategies adopted for persuasive effect in essays and non-fiction. The...
University of Virginia Library
Prism: Douglass Prism
[Free Registration/Login Required] Read Frederick Douglass' description of slave overseer Mr. Gore and highlight catalog in blue, anadiplosis in red, and chiasmus in green.
Washington State University
Washington State University: Literary Movements: The Slave Narrative
In addition to defining "Slave Narrative," this website includes information on the styles and influences associated with slave narratives. Also provided, are links to several examples of nineteenth- and twentieth-century slave narratives.
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Many Roads to Freedom: Locally Published Abolitionist Newspapers
Selections from abolitionist papers that were published in or near Rochester, New York are provided here for download in PDF format.
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