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| A DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVE ON SLAVERY: Writing the History of African American Slave Women
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Overview:
The accounts of African American slavery in textbooks
routinely conflate the story of male and female slaves
into one history. Textbooks rarely enable students to
grapple with the lives and challenges of women constrained
by the institution of slavery. The collections of letters
and autobiographies of slave women in the nineteenth century
now available on the Internet open a window onto the lives
of these women, and allow teachers and students to explore
this history. Using the classroom as an historical laboratory,
students can use these primary sources to research, read,
evaluate, and interpret the words of African American
slave women. The students can be historians; they can
discover the history of African American slave women and
write their history.
Objectives
- Students will be able to create a model to be used
to evaluate the validity of historical evidence.
- Students will examine primary documents and use
factual references in the documents to construct a
history of African American slave women.
- Students will be engaged in historical research
and the critical analysis of factual evidence.
- Students will be able to compare and contrast the
accounts of slave women with the portrayal of these
women in Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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