The African Diaspora in the Americas
Teacher Training Workshop
Alexandra Cornelius-Diallo, Ph.D.
Slavery and Resistance:
Teaching African American Men and Women’s History
I. The Middle Passage: A Gendered Perspective
In what ways was the experience of capture and enslavement gendered?
How do contemporary film makers, artists, and musicians “remember”
the Middle Passage?
II. Gendered Justifications for Slavery
III. African American Men and Women’s Resistance
A. The Underground Railroad
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/features/99/railroad/
This site, from National Geographic, allows students to take an online interactive
journey on the Underground Railroad.
B. The Underground Railroad: Escape from Slavery
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bhistory/underground_railroad/slideshows/
escape_slides.htm This site, featured in teacherscolastic.com provides teachers
and students with primary source materials, slide presentations, lesson plans, and
student activities.
C. The Decisions Enslaved Men and Women Made
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/responses/feature1.htmlThis site
provides students with scenarios and documents that allow them to appreciate
fully the difficult choices enslaved persons were forced to make.
IV. Additional Resources and Interactive Web Sites.
A. Analyzing Primary Source Materials
Sojourner Truth: Ar’nt I a Woman Speech
http://www.blackpast.org/?q=1851-sojourner-truth-arnt-i-woman
B. Slavery and the Making of America: Documentary, Primary Sources, and
Interactive Web Sites
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/freedom/index.html
1. Slavery and the Making of America: K-12 Learning
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/teachers/index.html
2. Slavery and the Making of America: The Virtual Museum
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/teachers/virtual.html
3. Legal Rights and Government
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/legal/index.html
Interactive Game: You Be the Judge.
4.
Religion: The Spiritual World of Slaves
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/religion/index.html
Hidden Objects: The Spiritual World of the Slaves
Interactive: A look at material evidence.
5. Men, Women, and Gender
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/gender/index.html
The Clothes Make the Man, the Woman, and the Slave
6. The Slave Experience: Freedom and Emancipation
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/experience/freedom/index.html
Interactive Games: Imagining Freedom Cartoon as historical records
Original Documents: Path slaves took Toward Freedom.
Maps
Blank U.S. States Map
http://www.50states.com/tools/usamap.htm
This site features a downloadable and reproducible blank map of the United States.
Free States and Slave States Before the Civil War
http://www.learner.org/biographyofamerica/prog10/maps/
This site features a color-coded map detailing slave states and free states in the United
States in 1860.
The Thirteen Colonies Map
http://www2.worldbook.com/assets/ handson_help_gfx/activityimages/colmap.gif
This site features a blank map of the thirteen original colonies.
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