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This Speaking Up and Speaking Out: Exploring the Lives of Black Women During the 19th Century lesson plan also includes:
- Speaking Up and Speaking Out: Exploring the Lives of Black Women During the 19th Century (.html)
- Resource Sheet #1: Profile List and Term Distinctions (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #2: Conditions of Free and Enslaved Women: Issues & Solutions (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #3: The House of Bondage (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #4: The House of Bondage Poetry (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #5: Autobiography of a Female Slave (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #6: Early Spring (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #7: Resurgam (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #8: Advertisements (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #9: Mutual Benefit Societies (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #10: The Literary souvenir (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #11: Practice school teachers at Howard University (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #12: Executive board of Women's League, Newport, R.I. (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #13: Negro homes - homes of poorer classes, Chattanooga (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #14: Officers of Tobacco Trade Union, Petersburg, Va. (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #15: Eva Martin, ex-slave, Beaumont (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #16: Old Aunt Julia Ann Jackson, age 102 (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #17: An African - From A Daguerreotype (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #18: Slave Auction in the South (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #19: Gordon Under Medical Inspection (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #20: Nannie Helen Burroughs 1909 (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #21: Mary Church Terrell (.pdf)
- Resource Sheet #22: Investigating Primary Sources (.pdf)
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Young historians investigate the often-hidden history of free and enslaved African American women before the Civil War. Using a collection of primary and secondary sources, including speeches, diaries, and poems, they evaluate the often overlooked lives of women, including their struggles within the abolition movement and against sexual assault. Extension activities and debate prompts engage pupils in ways that apply the history to modern-day civil rights efforts.
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- Create a group project using curated documents and included worksheets
Classroom Considerations
- Resource background material discusses sexual assault
- Includes disturbing images and discussion of family separation
Pros
- Lesson includes a variety of types sources
- Resource highlights lesser-voices in history
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