Unit 7
Slavery and Freedom
Race and Identity in Antebellum America
Authors and Works 331
Overview Questions 331
Learning Objectives 331
Instructor Review 332
Student Overview 333
Video Overview 334
Discussion Questions for the Video 335
Timeline 334
Author/Text Review 338
Sorrow Songs 338
Teaching Tips 338
Web Archive 338
Questions 339
Briton Hammon (fl. 1760) 339
Teaching Tips 340
Questions 340
Web Archive 340
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) 341
Teaching Tips 342
Web Archive 342
Questions 343
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 344
Teaching Tips 345
Questions 345
Web Archive 345
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) 346
Teaching Tips 347
Questions 348
Web Archive 348
Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813-1897) 348
Teaching Tips 350
Questions 351
Web Archive 351
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) 351
Teaching Tips 352
Web Archive 352
Questions 353
Lorenzo Asisara (b. 1819) 353
Teaching Tips 355
Questions 355
Web Archive 355
William and Ellen Craft (c. 1826-1897) 356
Teaching Tips 357
Questions 358
Web Archive 358
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) 359
Teaching Tips 350
Questions 360
Web Archive 360
Suggested Author Pairings 361
Core Contexts 362
The Radical in the Kitchen: Women, Domesticity, and Social Reform 362
Questions 364
Web Archive 365
Resistance, Rebellion, and Running Away: Acts of Defiance in Slave Culture 366
Questions 368
Web Archive 368
Stirring Things Up: Slaves and the Creation of African American Culture 369
Web Archive 370
Questions 371
Extended Contexts 371
The Plantation: Cultivating a Myth 371
Questions 372
Web Archive 372
Beyond the Pale: Interracial Relationships and “The Tragic Mulatta” 373
Questions 374
Web Archive 374
Assignments 375
Personal and Creative Responses 375
Problem-Based Learning Projects 374
Glossary 376
Selected Bibliography 378
Further Resources 379