Unit 7
Slavery and Freedom
Race and Identity in Antebellum America
Authors and Works 281
Overview Questions 281
Learning Objectives 281
Overview 283
Video Overview 283
Discussion Questions for the Video 384
Timeline 385
Author/Text Review 387
Sorrow Songs 387
Questions 387
Web Archive 387
Briton Hammon (fl. 1760) 288
Questions 289
Web Archive 289
Lydia Maria Child (1802-1880) 289
Questions 290
Web Archive 290
Abraham Lincoln (1809-1865) 291
Questions 292
Web Archive 292
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) 293
Web Archive 293
Questions 294
Harriet Jacobs (c. 1813-1897) 295
Questions 296
Web Archive 296
Frederick Douglass (1818-1895) 296
Web Archive 297
Questions 298
Lorenzo Asisara (b. 1819) 298
Web Archive 299
Questions 300
William and Ellen Craft (c. 1826-1897) 300
Web Archive 301
Questions 302
Helen Hunt Jackson (1830-1885) 302
Web Archive 303
Questions 304
Core Contexts 304
The Radical in the Kitchen: Women, Domesticity, and Social Reform 304
Questions 306
Web Archive 306
Resistance, Rebellion, and Running Away: Acts of Defiance in Slave Culture 307
Web Archive 309
Questions 310
Stirring Things Up: Slaves and the Creation of African American Culture 311
Questions 312
Web Archive 312
Extended Contexts 313
The Plantation: Cultivating a Myth 313
Questions 314
Web Archive 314
Beyond the Pale: Interracial Relationships and “The Tragic Mulatta” 315
Questions 316
Web Archive 316
Assignments 317
Personal and Creative Responses 317
Problem-Based Learning Projects 318
Glossary 318
Selected Bibliography 230
Further Resources 320