Teacher Resource List

Primary Source Documents

• Image Use Agreement
• Women's History Materials
• Angelina Grimke Defends Abolitionism
• Antislavery Hymn
• Catherine Beecher Opposes Abolitionism, Essay
• Declaration of the Sentiments of the people of Hartford
• Douglass July 4th Speech
• Garnet Address to Slaves
• George Harris Speech
• Hampden Colonization Circular
• How to Agitate the Public Mind
• James Otis
• Letter From HBS to Frederick Douglass
• Manumission Document Peter
• Middletown Colonization Society
• On-line Archive of Primary and Secondary Sources on Slavery
• Slave Overboard
• The Boston Riot of 1835

Additional Resources

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• The Religious Duty of Disobedience to Law: A Sermon Preached in the Second Presbyterian Church in Brooklyn November 24, 1850 by Ichabod S. Spencer
• The Duty of Disobedience to the Fugitive Slave Act: An Appeal to the Legislators of Massachusetts by L. Maria Child
• The Fugitive Slave Law and It’s Victims
• Speech of John Hossack, Convicted of a Violation of the Fugitive Slave Law, Before Judge Drummond of the United States District Court, Chicago, IL

• On the Abolition Petitions, Delivered in the Senate, March 9, 1836 by John C. Calhoun
• Speech of Mr. Cushing, of Massachusetts on the Rights to Petition, as Connected With Petitions for the Abolition of Slavery and the Slave Trade in the District of Columbia; In the House of Representatives, January 25, 1836
• Petition of Citizens of Dauphin County, Pennsylvania, for an Annual Appropriation to Remove to Africa All Free Negros and Manumitted Slaves, Etc., February 9, 1836

• Broadside: Anti-Slavery Convention
• Broadside: $2,500 REWARD
• Letter from Frederick Douglass to S. W. Cowles, Esq. August 21, 1882
• Travel Journal: South-Side View of Slavery: Three Months at the South in 1854

Teacher Institute Lesson Plans

2006

• Choices and Consequences
• Exploring Colonial Anti-Slavery Documents
• Perspectives on Slavery from the Characters Themselves
• Prudence Crandall
• Prudence Crandall Case Brief Format
• Prudence Crandall SOAPSTone
• Similarities of Uncles Tom's Cabin and Our Nig
• Stowe's Models of American Attitudes Towards Race
• We Will Be Heard, Abolition in CT

2007

• A Glimpse into the Life of a Slave on the Middle Passage
• Analyzing and Evaluating WPA Slave Narratives
• Attitudes Toward Race, Gender and Education in 1830's CT
• Courage to Stand
• Different Perspectives on Daily Life in late 18th Century
• Douglass and King
• Douglass' 4th of July Speech
• Freedom and the Jim Crow Laws
• Money and Morals in the Triangular Trade
• Moral Argument vs Legal Argument, The Question of Slavery
• Native American Slavery
• Pequot War Leads to Native American Slavery in New England
• Perspectives
• Power Language
• Recognizing Slaves as Individuals
• Recognizing Stereotypes in Media
• Slave Narratives
• Slavery and Emancipation in NE
• Slavery in New England
• Slavery in Windsor
• Slavery in America
• The individual and Society
• Understanding Source Documents

Archive

• 18th & 19th Century Abolitionism in the US
• 19thc. Middle Class Women Reformers & Society
• African American Slavery in New England
• Debunking the Myth, Slavery in the North
• Denying Slavery in CT, Why Textbooks are Incomplete
• Heroes in Literature
• Introduction to Slavery in the North
• Issues in the Illustrations of Uncle Tom's Cabin
• Native American Slavery in New England
• Slave Ownership in New Haven, 1790, the Paradox of James Hillhouse
• The Fugitive Slave Law and the Case of Anthony Burns
• The Hidden Truth About Slavery in New England
• The Legacy of the Women's movement
• The Women's Movement of the 19th Century
• Views of Slavery

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