Themes & Threads: Race and Equality
The American Revolution
Captain John Parker, commander of the Lexington militia, had received Paul Revere’s warning. Great Britain’s…
Chapter 14: John Brown’s Raid on Harpers Ferry
A. Lydia Maria Child, Governor Henry Wise of Virginia, and John Brown, Correspondence, October 1859…
Chapter 12: The Peculiar Institution: Positive Good or Pernicious Sin?
A. American Anti-Slavery Society, Declaration of Sentiments, December 6, 1833 The Convention assembled in the…
Democratic Party Platforms
Source: 1860 Democratic Party Platform, online by Gerhard Peters and John T. Woolley, The American…
Appeal of the Independent Democrats in Congress to the American People
Source: Congressional Globe, Senate, 33rd Congress, First Session, 281–282, https://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/ampage. As senators and representatives in…
Kansas: To Those that Desire that Kansas Should be Free.
Source: Printed Ephemera Collection, Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.02000100/
Poster Advertising Sale of a “Valuable Gang of Young Negroes”
Source: Duke University Libraries Digital Collections, https://repository.duke.edu/dc/broadsides/bdsla10566.
Distribution of the Slave Population by State
Source: Henry S. Graham Washington, 1861. Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/99447026/.
The Fugitive’s Song
Source: Ephraim W. Bouve and Henry Prentiss. The Fugitive's Song. Boston, 1845. Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-07616
Broadside Advertisement for Runaway Slave
Source: Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/rbpe.18604300/.
Caution!! Colored people of Boston
Source: Library of Congress, http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.rbc/rbpe.06002200/.
One-Day Seminar: Slavery and the Constitution, hosted by St. Thomas High School (Houston, TX)
Study deeply the problem of slavery within the context of the Constitutional Convention, the Constitution…
Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story (Pt. 2)
Part II: Teenaged Integration Pioneers Endure a Lonely Spotlight [caption id="attachment_34711" align="alignright" width="217"] Gloria Sloan[/caption]…
One-Day Seminar: Missouri, Dred Scott, and the Coming of the Civil War, hosted by Canyons School District (Salt Lake City area, UT)
[caption id="attachment_23685" align="aligncenter" width="500"] Louis Schultze. Dred Scott, 1888. Public domain, from the Missouri Historical…
One-Day Seminar: Civil Rights Speeches & Leaders hosted by Stevens Point High School (Stevens Point, WI)
[caption id="attachment_18260" align="aligncenter" width="321"] Reverend Theodore M. Hesburgh and Martin Luther King Jr. at the…