Weber Reads Douglass and Jacobs

Weber Reads Douglass and Jacobs

Resources

Slavery in America

Am I Not a Man and a Brother?

From PBS, "Slavery and the Making of America" to accompany films of same name.
Images from Library of Congress
- See also the Teachers' Page from LOC

Slave Narratives

From the National Humanities Center: Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs: American Slave Narrators
- and How to Read a Slave Narrative
Campbell, Donna M. "The Slave Narrative." Literary Movements. Dept. of English, Washington State University
Library of Congress: Slave Narrative Collection (WPA Writers' Project)
From EdSitement (NEH): Perspectives on Slave Narratives
From the University of North Carolina at Chapel is North American Slave Narratives

Traditions in African American Education

From the Organization of American Historians, "Segregation, Desgregation, Resegregation: African American Education, A Guide to the Literature" 2001
The Atlantic Monthly collected in 1995 several articles published in that magazine including those by Booker T. Washington and W.E.B. duBois.
From the Smithsonian are resources for teaching Black History