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Additional Resources for Lessons on Slavery
Books
Anderson, L. H. (2010). Chains. New York: Antheneum Books for Young
Readers.
Anderson, M. T. (2008). The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the
Nation. Somerville, MA: Candlewick Press.
Douglass, F. (1982, c1845). Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an
American Slave, Written by Himself. New York: Penguin.
Draper, S. (2006). Copper Sun. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Jacobs, H. A. (2001). Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Mineola, NY: Dover
Publications.
Mosley, M. (2006). 47. New York: Little Brown Books for Young Readers.
Petry, A. (1983). Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad. New
York: HarperCollins.
Taylor, Y. (2007). Growing Up in Slavery: Stories of Young Slaves as Told by
Themselves. Chicago: Chicago Review Press.
Reed, A. (n.d.). A Teacher’s Guide to the Signet Classic Edition of Frederick
Douglass’s A Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave.
Available at www.penguin.com/services-shared/teachersguides/
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Yetman, N. (2002). When I Was a Slave: Memoirs From the Slave Narrative
Collection. Mineola, NY: Dover Publications.
Websites and Web Sources
African Holocaust:
http://www.africanholocaust.net/articles/TRANSATLANTIC%20SLAVE%20TR
ADE.htm
Annenberg Learner:
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog09/index.html
Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record (by Jerome
S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr.):
http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/slavery/index.php
Library of Congress Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers'
Project, 1936-1938: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
Modern Day Slavery Resource: How many slaves work for you?
http://www.unit9.com/project/slavery-footprint
PBS: Slavery and the Making of America Lesson Plans for K–12:
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/teachers/lesson1c.html
Primary Source Resources: http://primarysource.org/bibliographies-slaves-
narratives
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Radio Open Source, The Hidden Histories of Slavery. (Wed. May 17, 2006,
Podcast): http://radioopensource.org/the-hidden-histories-of-slavery/
Schomberg Center for Research on Black Culture:
http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/topic.cfm?migration=1&topic=1 and
http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/landing.cfm?migration=1&bhcp=1 and
http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/links.cfm?migration=1
Slave Memorial: http://www.learnnc.org/lp/multimedia/8862
Stanford University African History for K-12 Class Resources: http://www-
sul.stanford.edu/depts/ssrg/africa/history/hisk12.html
Unchained Memories: Readings From the Slave Narratives (2003 Documentary):
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343129/
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