This guide was created for Ms. Gallo's English XII class: Bondage & Freedom, and will help you find books, articles, and primary sources.
Sample topics (from the class assignment sheet):
- Runaway Slave Advertisements
- Slave Auctions
- Slave Ships/The Middle Passage
- Abolitionist Meetings/Speeches
- Abolitionist Pamphlets or Newspapers
- A Famous Abolitionist (e.g. William Llyod Garrison)
- A Slave Narrative that we didn’t read (e.g. William Wells Brown’s)
- An important court decision or law (e.g. Dred Scott, the Fugitive Slave Act)
- Folk art, music, or any aspect of slave culture
- An escape from slavery (one man actually mailed himself to freedom)
- The American Colonization Society (ACS)
