Resource When I Was a Slave: Memoirs from the Slave Narrative Collection Norman R.

Yetman

Medium Book

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of O. Equiano, or G. Vassa, the African Olaudah Equiano

Book

Freedoms Children: The Passage from Emancipation to the Great Migration Velma Maia Thomas American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology

Book

Age/Developmental Rationale Range Grade 8 through I would like to post-college have this book available to students to refer to when they are collecting narratives from those that were slaves. This book has first-person accounts of more than 2,000 interviews of former slaves. Funded by the US Government. Grade 6 through This is a great post-college book for students to take passages from. It includes the authors arguments against the slave trade and how British reformers used his arguments to eventually succeed in ending it. Grade 6 through This book post-college provides insight into the simultaneous excitement and terror felt by slaves that were newly freed. Grade 6 through 12 This website has narratives from over 2,300 former slaves from across the American South. This would be used as a great tool for students

Resource Limitations None of the stories are edited in the sense that some of the narratives can be quite graphic. I would hope that the students would be sensitive to the events.

This book is all of 401 pages which may be too long for students to find full passages worth their inclusion in a presentation.

Website

This book wouldnt be considered a firsthand account, nor a memoir, but it provides a great fictional narrative based off of true events. Although this is seemingly a great website that students could navigate through, it does not have formal bibliographies of

The Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, & Abolition

Online database

Grade 6 through 12

The National Archives

Website

Grade 6 through 12

The Library of Congress: Voices from the Days of Slavery

Website

Grade 6 through post-college

to look through online while it also has annotated transcriptions. This is an allencompassing website that includes over 200 primary source documents that can be browsed by author, date, subject, or document type. This is a great website for students to learn about abolition. It includes background and information about the slave trade to further reading about abolition. This website provides audiorecorded interviews with African Americans born before the end of the Civil War. Students could use songs and transcriptions to gain insight on experiences.

where these were taken from. Im not sure how truly reliable this website is. To gain access to some of the better resources on the site, you need to pay.

Very few, if any, shortcomings with this website. Resources are free and everything is referenced.

There are limited essays and interviews, but all the while, informative.