My Students Resources
Books for Students
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/teachers/primary-source.html
Nice resource of books about slavery for young adults
Born in Slavery
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
Slave narratives from the federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938
Documenting the American South
http://docsouth.unc.edu/fpn/index.html
Primary sources dealing with the old south
Family
http://www.pbs.org/slavery/experience/family/docs.html
Primary sources that discuss slave family, this includes newspapers articles, ads, letters, journal writings, and narratives.
From Carolina to Alabama
http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/slavery/lesson2/doc1.html
Original document from a slave view
Nile of the New World
http://www.nps.gov/history/delta/underground/slave.htm
Discusses African American Slavery
Research 101
http://www.lib.washington.edu/uwill/research101/basic03.htm
Explains primary and secondary sources
Slavery
http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/slavery/lesson3/doc1.html
Great source that allows you to view an original document from a slaveholders view
Stophon Varner
http://www.archives.state.al.us/teacher/slavery/lesson2/doc2.html
Original document from a slave view
World History Sources
http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/r/30/whm.html
Excerpts from Slave Narratives
WPA Slave Memories
http://www.pbs.org/slavery/resource documents/wpa.html
Experience of slavery as remembered by former slaves sponsored by Federal Writers’ Project
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