Introduction

Back in the old days before 1994, students had to use textbooks, magazines, television and the library to collect information. These are still good things, but now you can also use the World Wide Web. Explore the Internet links on this page and look for good facts, quotations, examples, and images. Imagine that you're an explorer in cyberspace and your job is to come back from a virtual journey with lots of artifacts and souvenirs to teach people back home what you learned! What's collected can then be pinned on a classroom bulletin board, pasted into an in-class newsletter, featured in a student-made multimedia stack, or posted as a Web page. Don't forget to take the quiz which can help you assess how well you have used the links.

Keep this question in mind as you work:

Slavery Scrapbook Quiz
1. Rastus, from the famous Cream of Wheat advirtisements, most closely resembles which racist caricature?
a. Tom b. Coon c. Brute d. Mammy

2. Who does Frederick Douglass meet in 1845 that causes him to become a champion of women's rights?
a. Dorthea Dix b. Susan B. Anthony c. Harriet Tubman
d. William Lloyd Garrison

3. According to CIA estimates, how many people are enslaved in the United States today?
a. 1,000 b. 10,000 c. 100,000 d. 1,000,000

4.What event in Feb. of 1831 convinced Nat Turner that it was time for him to lead a slave revolt in Virginia?
a. the death of his wife
b. a drought
c. an eclipse of the sun as a sign from God
d. a consensus was made among slaves at his plantation

5. Which happened last?
a. Turner's slave revolt in VA
b. Congress enacts a gag law to suppress debate over
slavery
c. Mexican War ends, expanding U.S. slave territory
into Texas
d. Dred Scott decision by U.S. Supreme Court held

AUTHENTIC ASSESSMENT

Using these resources and your knowledge of Social Studies, create a three act play that would contain a set of historically believable experiences found within a southern plantation.

Instructions

1. Explore the Internet sites linked below. You're looking for facts, quotes, examples, images, sound clips, videos, and animations that you think are important aspects of the topic.

2. When you find something you like, check its Web page for a copyright notice. Often, students are encouraged to copy things that will only be used in the classroom. Sometimes people don't want their work copied at all. A good practice is looking for an e-mail link on the page and then using it to ask permission.

3. Copy any text you want by dragging across the words, then using the Edit - Copy command on the menubar. Paste what you highlighted into a basic text editor, word processor, desktop publishing program or multimedia program.

4. Save images you like by downloading them. Paste the images you've downloaded into a multimedia, paint or desktop publishing program (like HyperStudio, Clarisworks, or PageMaker) or use one of the graphics viewers listed as Tools on this page to display your collection of images.

5. Be prepared to cut anything that copyright owners tell you they don't want you to have.

6. Once you have collected your information, go over it carefully so that you can give clear and thoughtful reasons why you found the things you collected especially important.
   

The Internet Resources

Background Information

• From Slavery To Freedom - A collection of pamphlets written between 1824 and 1909 by African-American authors about slavery, African colonization, Emancipation, Reconstruction, and related topics.

• The Frederick Douglass Papers - The Frederick Douglass Papers at the Library of Congress presents the papers of the nineteenth-century African-American abolitionist who escaped from slavery and then risked his own freedom by becoming an outspoken antislavery lecturer, writer, and publisher.

• North American Slave Narratives - North American Slave Narratives, Beginnings to 1920 documents the individual and collective story of the African American struggle for freedom and human rights in the eighteenth, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

• The Dred Scott Case - The records displayed in this exhibit document the Scotts' early struggle to gain their freedom through litigation and are the only extant records of this significant case as it was heard in the St. Louis Circuit Court.

• Encyclopaedia of Slavery - Huge collection of slave accounts, slave systems, slave lives, events, campaigners against slavery, and political organizations that crusaded against the institution.

• Understanding Slavery - Few human practices have provoked such deep and widespread outrage as the practice of one human being enslaving another. So why has slavery survived for thousands of years? How did it become so important to civilization? Explore the ways that slavery has been woven into the fabric of societies in America and around the world.

• Chronology of the History of Slavery 1619-1789 - Compiled from Archive, library and Internet source documentation, this timeline on Slavery and in part the History of Racism, has been used to guide the direction of independent research into the history of enslaved Americans of African descent at historic sites located at the National Zoo, in Washington, DC. Hopefully, this compilation of American history will help others who undertake similar tasks.

• Slave Voices from the Duke University Special Collections Library - These web pages are based on the catalog of an exhibit mounted at Perkins Library, Duke University, in November and December, 1995. Some of the items described here were too large or fragile to be scanned, so images of them were not included in the on-line version even though descriptions of the items are. All the items listed here are available to researchers who come to the Rare Book Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University, and we invite you to come use the original items if you have the opportunity.

• Underground Railroad: Special Resource Study - In 1990, Congress authorized the National Park Service to conduct a study of the Underground Railroad, its routes and operations in order to preserve and interpret this aspect of United States history. This study includes a general overview of the Underground Railroad, with a brief discussion of slavery and abolitionism, escape routes used by slaves, and alternatives for commemoration and interpretation of the significance of the phenomenon.

Current News

• American Anti-Slavery Group - Site dedicated to informing and helping to combat slavery in the present

Images

• Jim Crow Museum of Racist Memorabilia - The museum collects, exhibits, and preserves objects and collections related to racial segregation, civil rights and anti-Black caricatures.

• The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record - The hundreds of images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery. This collection is envisioned as a tool and a resource that can be used by teachers, researchers, students, and the general public -- in brief, anyone interested in the experiences of Africans who were enslaved and transported to the Americas and the lives of their descendants in the slave societies of the New World.

Tools

References

Hypertext Webster Dictionary

Get definitions to many words quickly.

Roget's Internet Thesaurus

Find words that have similar meanings to words you run across.

Grabbing Web Images

Follow a friendly step-by-step tutorial on how to grab images from the Web.

Software

download JPEGView (Macintosh)

Software for showing images

download Lview Pro (Windows)

Software for showing images

HyperStudio

Multimedia authorware used at many schools. Check out the Website for support, ideas, and the Netscape Plug-In

Shareware.com

Thousands of software programs you may want to download and use.

HTML Tutorial

Create your own Web page to show what you've learned.