African American History

Essays

Martin Luther King Memorial March, April 4, 1998. (GLC08359)

A Place in History: Historical Perspective on Martin Luther King Jr. Day

Author: James Oliver Horton Curriculum Subjects: Government and Civics Grade Levels: 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
Monticello, Charlottesville, VA, ca. 1978. (Library of Congress, P&P, HABS)

When the Past Speaks to the Present: Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

Author: Annette Gordon-Reed Curriculum Subjects: Science, Technology, Engineering and Math Grade Levels: 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
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Featured Primary Sources

Posting bond for manumission of a slave, May 5, 1757 (Gilder Lehrman Collection)

A bond for the manumission of a slave, 1757

Creator: Philip Livingston Curriculum Subjects: Grade Levels: 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
Letter from John S. Mosby to Sam Chapman, June 4, 1907. (GLC03921.21p1)

A former Confederate officer on slavery and the Civil War, 1907

Creator: John S. Mosby Curriculum Subjects: Grade Levels: 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
Rufus King. Substance of Two Speeches, Delivered in the Senate of the United Sta

A Founding Father on the Missouri Compromise, 1819

Creator: Rufus King Curriculum Subjects: Grade Levels: 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13+
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Multimedia

African American Lives: An Overview

Dred and Harriet Scott: A Family Story of Slavery and Freedom

Early American Slave Culture

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Interactive Features

Theodore Roosevelt’s letter reviling the Dred Scott Decision (Gilder Lehrman Co

The Dred Scott Decision and Its Bitter Legacy

Portrait of an African-American family in Calhoun, Alabama, cyanotype by Richard

Wilberforce, Lincoln, and the Abolition of Slavery

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Teaching Resources

Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century

Curriculum Subjects: Grade Levels:
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Recommended Resources

Caretta, Vincent. Unchained Voices: An Anthology of Black Authors in the English-Speaking World of the Eighteenth Century. Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1996.

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