Chapter 9: Slavery and Emancipation
For this unit you will read Chapter 9 from the Zinn book. You will learn about slavery in the Southern United States, The Abolition Movement, and the Civil War in relationship to slavery.
1-Slavery in the American South
Article:
Autobiography:
Harriet Jacobs-
A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and of her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' classic narrative, written between 1853 an 1858 and published in 1861
(link bellow)
A haunting, evocative recounting of her life as a slave in North Carolina, and of her final escape and emancipation, Jacobs' classic narrative, written between 1853 an 1858 and published in 1861
(link bellow)
2-The Abolition Movement
Fredrick Douglas
Abraham Lincoln
3-The Civl War
4- Emancipation without Freedom
Ku Klux Klan
Lynching
W.E.B. Du Bois