Articles
Chilcoat, George W. "Popular Culture As A Teaching Strategy: The American Slave Experience," Teaching History: A Journal of Methods volume 11, number 2 (Fall 1986), pp. 62-70. Summary: Describes how 4 historical, popular, culture mediums may be used to help stimulate student curiosity about the past and provide practice in using and understanding the historical method. Highlighting the slave experience, the mediums are: (1) the antislave almanac; (2) the dime novel; (3) the moving panorama; and (4) the propaganda play. Procedures for using each medium are described.
Cotton, Barbara R. "Teaching Nineteenth Century Afro-American History: The Case Study Approach," Western Journal of Black Studies volume 3, number 1 (Spring 1979), pp. 72-76. Summary: In this case study approach, teaching episodes designed using Richard Wade's thesis concerning slavery in the city are presented. Episodes include studies of Jacksonville, Florida, Savannah, Georgia, and New Orleans, Louisiana.
Chesebrough, David B. "Sermons as Historical Documents: Henry Ward Beecher and the Civil War," History Teacher volume 23, number 3. (May 1990), pp. 275-91. Summary: Analyzes one of Henry Ward Beecher's sermons to teach about the northern antislavery movement between 1830 and 1860 and to illustrate how sermons can be used as primary source documents. Provides six field-tested guidelines developed from an introductory U.S. history survey course to explain how students analyzed the sermon, held discussion, and wrote short essays.
Roth, Ilene. "An inspiring American voice," Learning volume 22, number 6 (February 1994), pp. 45-47. Summary: Ways in which teachers can introduce their students to Phillis Wheatley are presented. They can be introduced to the young slave girl through Black History Month in February or Women's History Month in March.
Brown, Wesley (editor). The Teachers & Writers guide to Frederick Douglass (New York: Teachers & Writers Collaborative, 1995), x, 114 p.: ill. ; 23 cm.
Teaching Using WPA Slave Narratives
Bailey, David Thomas. "A Divided Prism: Two Sources on Black Testimony on Slavery." Journal of Southern History 46 (1980): 381-404.
Blassingame, John W. "Using the Testimony of Ex-Slaves: Approaches and Problems." Journal of Southern History 41 (1975): 473-92.
Cade, John B. "Out of the Mouths of Ex-Slaves." Journal of Negro History 20 (July 1935): 294-337.
Cantrell, Andrea. "WPA Sources for African-American Oral History in
Arkansas: Ex-Slave Narratives and Early Settlers' Personal Histories." Arkansas Historical Quarterly 63 (2004): 44-67
Davis, Charles T. and Henry Louis Gates, Jr. The Slave's Narrative. (New
York:
Oxford University Press, 1985)
Escott, Paul D. Slavery Remembered: A Record of Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1979)
Lantz, Herman R. "Family and Kin as Revealed in the Narratives of Ex-Slaves." Social Science Quarterly 60 (1980): 667-75.
Musher, Sharon Ann Musher, "Contesting 'The Way the Almighty Wants It': Crafting Memories of Ex-Slaves in the Slave Narrative Collection," American Quarterly 53, no. 1 (March 2001)
Shaw, Stephanie J. "Using the WPA ex-slave narratives to study the impact of the Great Depression." The Journal of Southern History 69.3 (2003)
Soapes, Thomas F. "The Federal Writers' Project Slave Interviews: Useful Data or Misleading Source." Oral History Review 2 (1977): 33-38.
Spindel, Donna J. "Assessing Memory: Twentieth-Century Slave Narratives Reconsidered." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 27 (1996): 247-61.
Woodward, C. Vann. "History from Slave Sources." American Historical Review 79 (1974): 470-81.
Yetman, Norman R. "Ex-Slave Interviews and the Historiography of Slavery." American Quarterly 36 (1984): 181-210.
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