Stephanie Richmond

To appreciate the fact that studying the domestic slave trade (and slavery) is key to understanding American society before the Civil War, it is helpful to look back in time to the early encounters between Europeans, Native Americans, and Africans as Europeans were establishing colonies… Read More »Lesson Plan 2 – Placing the domestic slave trade in broader national and international contexts (Empires and Colonization of the Americas) 

I. Getting introduced to the ship manifests: Choose a ship manifest and spend a few minutes looking through it, perhaps paying attention to the layout of the page/s, torn, smudged or faded bits, maybe noticing words that are typed or those written in cursive, or… Read More »Lesson Plan 1: Placing the domestic slave trade in national historical context

Reading handwritten documents is a skill that many students struggle with when first working with archival sources. Depending on when and where students attended elementary school, they may or may not know how to write and read cursive, and the inconsistencies of spelling and punctuation… Read More »Appendix E: Reading Nineteenth Century Handwriting

Have students review Foreman’s essay in class and have them write down what they think the key take-away of the piece is.  Class Discussion: preserve people’s dignity and agency? Introducing concept of specialized language in the slave trade: Introduce terminology used by slave traders to… Read More »Appendix D: Lesson Plan for Language about Slavery

Discussion Guide for Berry and Foster’s articles from JCWE Discussion Guide for Berry, Price per Pound of their Flesh

Ball, Erica. To Live an Antislavery Life: Personal Politics and the Antebellum Black Middle Class. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2012.  Bell, Richard. “Counterfeit Kin: Kidnappers of Color, the Reverse Underground Railroad, and the Origins of Practical Abolition.” Journal of the Early Republic 38, no.… Read More »Appendix B: Bibliography