SENIORS: SCHEDULE FOR COLLEGE APPLICATIONS
IMAGES AND ORIGINAL NARRATIVES FROM THE SLAVE ERA
IN AMERICAN
HISTORY
http://www.howhist.com/fraser/project.htm#slavery-newest
"Northerners know nothing at all about Slavery. They think it is perpetual bondage only. They have no conception of the depth of degradation involved in the word, SLAVERY; if they had, they would never cease their efforts until so horrible a system was overthrown."
Goals of Project:
•To give students an opportunity to view authentic documents, photographs, and narratives from an era in United States history when slavery was legal
•To encourage students to make their own judgements about the causes and effects of slavery on its victims and perpetrators
•To provide a historical background for the discussion of Kindred, a novel of historical fiction
Directions:
Over the course of two days, you will be exploring a website that focuses on Harriet Jacobs, a slave who wrote her own memoirs Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl which chronicles her life in the South in the years preceding the Civil War. You will be viewing photographs from the era as well as reading narratives written by slaves, in order to get a sense of what it was like to live under the conditions of that period in U.S. history.
PRINT OUT A CHECKLIST OF ASSIGNMENTS AND ATTACH IT TO YOUR FINAL WORK.
1. Begin at the website homepage at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/JACOBS/hjhome.htm
Go to "SITE INDEX"
CLICK ON "PREFACE"
a)Read, "PREFACE BY AUTHOR"
Answer Question:
b. What was the author's purpose in writing her memoirs?
2. Return to the book's home page and click on SITE INDEX. Look through the Table of Contents
a) Choose one chapter from her book on this list .
b) Read it, summarize the chapter's events.
c) Also, answer: What aspects of her life do you believe would have most shocked the audience of the era (1800s)or the present day reader?
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3. Returning to the home page , click on IMAGES.
Choose one of the FIVE areas of slave life labeled "working conditions" and view its photos.
a)Describe three or more of the pictures:
b)What are the photos of? Describe in detail what you see.
c)What does each imply about conditions of slaves in this period?
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4. Choose one of the slave narratives we have not yet read at http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/index.html
Read the narrative, then answer:
•What was the general occupation of this particular slave?
•What did you find out about the life of a slave that interested or surprised you?
•Why did the writer of the interview preserve the original speech and dialect of the narrator? What effect did it have on you as you read?
5. On the IMAGES SITE look at one of the photographed documents of this era, either the
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a) Describe the contents and your reaction to it.
b) Look at the runaway slave poster . List any sentences that demonstrate the clear relationship between master and slave.
6. a. View the site which shows evidence of ways abolitionists tried to argue against slavery.
b) Explain three arguments or approaches they used to convince others that slavery was wrong.
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END THOUGHTS: WRITE AN EXTENDED PARAGRAPH OF APPROXIMATELY 250 WORDS (typed, double-spaced):
Consider the process you have just gone through of viewing authentic documents, pictures, and narratives to get a sense of an institution such as slavery. Using specific references to what you've read and seen, compare this way of exploring an era in U.S. History to reading a textbook on slavery.
]Include quotations and examples whenever possible. You should have three examples and quoted passages from the history textbook as well as at least 3 quotations and specific examples from the primary documents.
Your extended paragraph essay should be typed, well-organized thesis statement and appropriate transitions between points, and appropriate grammar and punctuation. Pay particular attention to run-ons, comma splices, sentence fragments, and a clear use of pronouns (it should be 100% clear what each pronoun refers to!)
Your extended paragraph essay should be typed, well-organized with appropriate transitions between points, and appropriate grammar and punctuation.
Use the list of rubric you created in class, and attach it to your final papers.