Runaway slave / Bernarda Bryson
Runaway slave /
Bernarda Bryson

Let My People Go

7th Grade (Flamingos)
Project On Slavery
Mr. Larkin (Social Studies) & Mrs. Light (English)
Stafford Middle School, Plattsburgh NY

Photograph of newspaper advertisement from the 1780s(?) for the sale of slaves at Ashley Ferry outside of Charleston, South Carolina.

Working Files

Articles & Authentic Diaries

Your Assignment Life on Plantations
Rubric For Your Assignment Slavery in Colonial North America
Parent Email Slave Diary 1
Power Point Presentation Slave Diary 2
Slave Code Lyrics Code Quilts
Nightjohn Worksheet
Diary Brainstorm

Class Overview

Extra Credit Assignment
Black Loyalist Worksheet  
Homework Diary  
Pounds to Shillings  
Web site Evaluation Guide  
Creating Your Bibliography:
M.L.A. Style
 

Slavery– Starting Resources

African-American Experience

http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/Af_Amer/aalife.cfm

Africans in America Web site

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/narrative_txt.html

The Growth of Slavery in North America

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr5_txt.html

Religion and Slavery

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2narr2.html

Look Here for General Information (Geography, History etc.)

Ask Mr. Puschak for the password for home access

www.worldbookonline.com

Use ID: platts
P_ssword: see library staff

Web Links

Primary Documents & Illustrations:

http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/search.html

Daily Life of Slaves:

http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/slavery/antebellum_slavery/plantation_slave_life/health.htm

http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/dayinlife/plantation/home.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2956.html

http://www.headleypark.bristol.sch.uk/slavery/tradetriangle/plantationlife.htm

http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/slavery_life_cycle.htm

http://www.stratfordhall.org/africa.html?HISTORY

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=44

http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs313a,0,5978045.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us16.cfm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/slaves/

Slave Diary Excerpts:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/burton/burton.html

http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs/wwm97262/@Generic__BookTextView/187;hf=0#X

http://docsouth.unc.edu/williamsjames/williams.html

Middle Passage:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr4.html

http://www.radford.edu/~geog-web/alliance/activity4.html

http://www.antislavery.org/breakingthesilence/main/Activities/03_TriangularTrade.pdf

Slave Narratives:

WPA

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fpnas:@field(SUBJ+diaries):heading=Diaries

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fpnas:autobiography:heading=Autobiographies

By Name: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/mesnbibnarrindex.html

By State: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/mesnbibStates1.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/vfssp.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snvoices00.html

Other Naratives:

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/index.html

Slave Names:

Afro-Louisiana History & Genealogy 1719-1820
http://ibiblio.org/laslave/miscell.php

Underground Railroad:

http://home.earthlink.net/~lthorn/lnks.html

http://www.ugrworkshop.com/welcome.htm

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/

http://www.freedomtrail.org

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSLAMusicCivilWarUnit-UnitOutline46.htm

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plans/lesson-4969.html?detoured=1

http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ugrr/

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2273/

http://www.remc11.k12.mi.us/bstpract/bpIII/091/091.PDF

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/routes.htm

Code Quilts:

http://home.columbus.rr.com/bradshaw/UNDERRR/quilt/underground_railroad_quilt.htm

http://www.africanaonline.com/slavery_codewords.htm

http://www.hartcottagequilts.com/railroad.htm

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/sweet/sweettg.html

http://my.voyager.net/~econnect/quiltcode.pdf

http://www.thesolutionsite.com/lpnew/lesson/16251/patchworkparade5.html

Abolitionists:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1561.html

Slavery in the North Country:

http://www.apnmag.com/Back%20in%20the%20Day/fall%2002/slaves/underground%20railroad.htm

Music Links and Lesson Plans:

http://archive.blackvoices.com/blackboard/bb_mus_000115.htm#mat

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/gourd.htm

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2282/

http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/sbgoose/math5.html

http://www.iupui.edu/~geni/lsort/spirituals_ugrr_rt.html

http://www.negrospirituals.com/

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSLAMusicCivilWarUnit-AppendixB-OnAnUndergroundRailroad46.htm

Music Related to Slavery

African Drumming Congas by Atiba Cazembe Down By The Riverside Vocals by Kathryn Stanley, Martin Woods and Yolanda Williams
More Drumming African   John Henry.mp3 Lead Vocals by William Trice
Amazing Grace.mp3   Jacobs Ladder.mp3  
de Lawd.mp3   Steal Away.mp3  
Death.mp3 Middle Georgia Singers Swing Low Sweet Chariot.mp3 Vocals by Velma Maia Thomas
Ham Bone Ellis Phelps and Brazz P. Evans Witness Vocals Roscoe Boyd & Chorus Arranged by David Morrow
I'll Fly Away.mp3      
Copyright © Colonial Williamsburg Foundation 2005
*Source: Newsweek Magazine
As many as 300 slaves were packed into ships for the 'Middle Passage' from Africa to the Americas

Top

Back to SMS Library Home Page

Photograph ofs Greater  Flamingo