Slavery and Emancipation

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Texts: Carroll and Noble, The Free and the Unfree Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl Melville, "Benito Cereno" Sojouner Truth, "A'n't I a Woman" (1851)

Electronic Resources: Antebellum Slavery and Freedom Resistance and Abolition Debate and Legislation Southern White Women and Slavery Web Exhibits Slavery and the Civil War in American Fiction

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Antebellum Slavery and Freedom
• Slave Voices from the Duke University Special Collections Library
• Slave Narratives
• American Slave Narratives
• On Borrowed Ground: Free African-American life in Charleston, South Carolina 1810-61

Resistance and Abolition
• Sojourner Truth
• The Confessions of Nat Turner
• Douglass - Archives of American Public Address
• The Frederick Douglass Museum & Cultural Center
• Underground Railroad

Debate and Legislation
• The Debate in the Virginia General Assembly (1831-1832) about the Abolition of Slavery
• The Fugitive Slave Law

  The Gettysburg Address

  Emancipation Proclamation

Southern White Women and Slavery
• Mary Boykin Chesnut
• Civil War Women - On-line Archival Exhibits at Duke University

Web Exhibits
• Museum of Slavery: Homepage
• STUDIES IN THE WORLD HISTORY OF SLAVERY, ABOLITION AND EMANCIPATION
• African Burial Ground Archeological Project

  Virtual Antebellum Richmond

  The Valley of the Shadow, 1995

  Civil War Manuscripts at the Southern Historical Collection

  CSAS

  The African-American Mosaic

  African American Pamphlets Home Page

Slavery and the Civil War in American Fiction
• Uncle Tom's Cabin, Contents
• Red Badge Home Page

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[AMST 1001] [Undergraduate Studies] [American Studies at UMINN]

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