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University of Virginia Electronic Text Center: African American Resources PrimaryUniversity of Virginia Electronic Text Center: African American Resources Primary
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University of Virginia
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9th - 10th
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University of Virginia Electronic Text Center: African American Resources

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A collection of primary source materials on African American history. Much of it is about slavery and racism. There are many slave narratives here, letters, essays, and biographical materials, and some of the names are well known ones, such as Frederick Douglass. This is an archived site.

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Concepts

racism, slavery, african american history

Additional Tags

racial inequality, roots of racism, slave experience, slave trade, african american, african american experience, slave narrative, historical background of african americans

Classroom Considerations

  • Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
  • This resource is only available on an unencrypted HTTP website.It should be fine for general use, but don’t use it to share any personally identifiable information

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