Name/Title
Understanding and Teaching American SlaveryEntry/Object ID
2016.004.2Description
Offers practical advice for teaching specific content, utilizing sources, and getting students to think critically. Contributors address, among other topics, slavery and the nation's founders, the diverse experiences of the enslaved, slavery's role in the Civil War, and the relationship between slavery and the northern economy. Other chapters offer ideas for teaching through slave narratives, runaway ads, spirituals, films, and material culture. Will help instructors tackle problems, discover opportunities, and guide students in grappling with the ugliest truths of America's past.
Contents: Foreword: The short course for bringing slavery into the classroom in ten not-so-easy pieces / Ira Berlin -- Introduction / Bethany Jay and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly -- Part one: Slavery and the classroom. Methods for teaching slavery to high school students and college undergraduates in the United States / James W. Loewen -- Dealing with things as they are: creating a classroom environment for teaching slavery and its lingering impact / Steven Thurston Oliver -- Part two: Teaching specific content. Teaching the origins of slavery in the Americas / Eric Kimball -- Slavery in the new nation: human bondage in the land of liberty / Paul Finkelman -- Blood stained mirrors: decoding the American slave-trading past / Sowande' Mustakeem -- Slavery and the northern economy / Christy Clark-Pujara -- Northern slavery and its legacies: still a new (and unwelcome?) story / Joanne Pope Melish -- Slave resistance / Kenneth S. Greenberg -- Slave culture / Bernard E. Powers Jr. -- The diverse experiences of the enslaved / Deirdre Cooper Owens -- Slavery and the Civil War / Bethany Jay -- Comparative slavery / Laird W. Bergad -- The challenge of slavery since emancipation: from 1865 to the Twenty-first century / James Brewer Stewart -- Part three: Sources and strategies for teaching slavery. Using the WPA slave narratives in the classroom / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly -- Teaching the history of slavery through film / Ron Briley -- Art and slavery / Ray Williams -- In the footsteps of others: understanding slavery through process drama / Lindsay Anne Randall -- "A likely negro": using runaway-slave advertisements to teach slavery / Antonio T. Bly -- Teaching the history of slavery and its legacy through historical archaeology: Project Archaeology / Sarah E. Miller, James M. Davidson, and Emily Palmer.
xx, 318 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. (softcover)Collection
Historic Charleston Foundation LibraryAcquisition
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2016.004Source or Donor
New Library Books Purchased (2016)Acquisition Method
PurchasedCredit Line
Restricted Book/Archives Acquisition Fund PurchaseLexicon
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsSearch Terms
Slavery--History--Study and teaching--United StatesBook Details
Author
Lyerly, Cynthia Lynn, 1960-, Jay, BethanySeries
Harvey Goldberg Series for Understanding and Teaching HistoryPublisher
University of WisconsinCall No.
E441 .U45 2016ISBN
9780299306649LCCN
2015010259Notes
Date: [2016]
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February 7, 2023General Notes
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Notes: Edited by Bethany Jay and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly. Foreword by Ira Berlin.
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