Sights

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Sights Sounds of Slavery

• U.S. History to 1877
• By Carol Almarez

Click on this link to listen to Paul Robeson sing
Go Down Moses,then minimize the webpage
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Primary Secondary Sources in History

• Primary
• Direct or firsthand
• Examples
• Bill of sale
• Letters
• Diaries
• Oral histories
• Photographs
• REMEMBER Some of these sources can be biased

• Secondary
• Derived from something original or primary
• Examples
• Textbook
• TV documentary
• Recent Magazine articles
• Recent Newspaper articles
• Encyclopedias

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Abolitionists

• What is an abolitionist?
• What did they think of slavery?
• Morally wrong
• Cruel and inhumane
• Violates the principles of democracy

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The white mans happiness cannot be purchased by
the black mans misery - Frederick Douglass
Although volume upon volume is written to prove
slavery a very good thing, we never hear of he
man who wishes to take the good of it by being a
slave himself -Abraham Lincoln
No man can put a chain about the ankle of his
fellow man without at last finding the other end
fastened about his own neck - Frederick Douglass
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Slave Narratives

• Narrative to tell in detail, in this case to
  tell about part of a persons life
• Interviews with people who had been slaves before
  and during the American Civil War
• Done from 1935-1938 by the WPA (Works Progress
  Administration)audio tapes now in the Library of
  Congress

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• WrittenNarrative of the Life of Frederick
  Douglass

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The Words of Fountain Hughes, Former Slave

• Born 1848
• Interviewed by Hermond Norwood,Baltimore,
  Maryland, June 11, 1949
• My name is Fountain Hughes. I was born in
  Charlottesville, Virginia. My grandfather belong
  to Thomas Jefferson.

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Life as a Slave Fountain Hughes (continued)
We had no home, you know. We was jus' turned out
like a lot of cattle. You know how they turn
cattle out in a pasture? Well after freedom, you
know, colored people didn' have nothing.
Didn' allow you to look at no book. An' there was
some free-born colored people, why they had a
little education, but there was very few of them,
where we was.
Now I couldn' go from here across the street, or
I couldn' go through nobody's house out I have a
note, or something from my master. An' if I
had that pass, that was what we call a pass, if I
had that pass, I could go wherever he sent me.
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Slave Children

• An' my father was dead, an' my mother was living,
  but she had three, four other little children,
  an' she had to put them all to work for to help
  take care of the others.

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They'd have a regular, have a sale every month,
you know, at the court house. An' then they'd
sell you, an' get two hundred dollar, hundred
dollar, five hundred dollar
Advertisement for sale of human beings
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Assignment

• Task 1
• Using what you heard in the slave narratives, and
  in the remainder of this presentation, list three
  examples that support the abolitionists view of
  slavery.
• Task 2
• Picture yourself as a slave before the Civil War
• Write a paragraph describing the three things you
  would like LEAST about being a slave, and explain
  why
• Use full sentences and correct spelling and
  punctuation

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Webliography

• Fort, B. (1998). American Slave Narratives An
  Online Anthology, Online,11/22/04.
• University of Virginia. http//xroads.virginia
  .edu/hyper/wpa/hughes1.html
• (n.d.) Go Down, Moses (Traditional). (Online),
  12/1/04. Authentic History Center.
• http//www.authentichistory.com/antebellum/spir
  ituals/AA_Spiritual_Go_Down_Moses.html
• Handler, J. Tuite. M. (n.d.) The Atlantic Slave
  Trade and Slave Life in the Americas A Visual
  Record (Online), 11/26/04. University of
  Virginia.
• http//hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/
• Library of Congress. (n.d.) Slave Narratives from
  the Federal Writers Project. (Online), 11/23/04.
• American Memory. http//memory.loc.gov/ammem/s
  nhtml/snhome.html
• 5. Life of a Plantation Slave video clip.(Online)
  11/25/04. http//www.unitedstreaming.com
• (2002) Types of Primary Sources. (Online),
  11/25/04. Library of Congress Learning Page.
• http//lcweb2.loc.gov/learn/lessons/psources/typ
  es.html