Antebellum Resistance to Slavery
Our first web session explored two rich websites offering documents
pertaining to antebellum resistance to slavery. "Africans in America" is
a mammoth website associated with a 4-part, 6-hour documentary that
appeared on PBS in 1998.
Africans
in America
For our brief exploration, we went from the site's home page to part
4--Judgment Day, covering the period 1831-1865; then we went to the
Resource Bank. Moving down the outline of materials in this section led us
to a section on Abolitionism and a second one on Fugitive Slaves and
Racism. These documents provide useful places to begin a search for
supplementary classroom materials.
The second site, the website of the Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of
Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition at Yale University, offers an equally
rich assortment of documents on abolitionism and resistance to slavery. On
this site there is an interesting lesson plan created by teachers focusing
on the slave revolt on the Cuban slaving vessel, the Amistad.
Gilder Lehrman
Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition: Resources on
Abolitionism
This site has an excellent index, so let's click on "Source Documents" and
then browse by subject through a subject guide to the 200 documents that
have been assembled on this site. There you see a range of subject terms
that have been used to index the documents. We examined the group of
documents under the very first heading--abolition movement.
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