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The Art of History in African American Life and Culture Resources: March 2024
NOTE: As shared from this webinar’s presenter
Educator Resources
- National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
- Google Arts & Culture: Underground Railroad Freedom, A Slave Pen Journey
- Library of Congress, Stowage of the British slave ship “Brookes” under the Regulated Slave Trade Act of 1788
- MFA Boston Collections, Turner, Joseph Mallord William. Slave Ship (Slavers Throwing Overboard the Dead and Dying, Typhon Coming on)
- Matthew Marks Gallery, Artist Simone Leigh.
- The HIGH Museum, Hear Me Now: The Black Potters of Old Edgefield, South Carolina, Teacher Resource
- Library of Congress, The Negro Law of South Carolina
- Library of Congress Blogs, How Newspapers Helped Crowdsource a Scientific Discovery: The 1833 Leonid Meteor Storm
- Theaster Gates Art
- Adebunmi Gbadebo Art
Physical Books
- Documenting the American South, Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
- Project Gutenberg, Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
- Project Gutenberg, Jacobs, Harriet A. Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl, New York Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1973
- Project Gutenberg, Styron,William. The Confessions of Nat Turner, Random House, Inc., 1967
- Project Gutenberg, Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, James Albert. A Narrative of the Most Remarkable Particulars in the Life of James Albert Ukawsaw Gronniosaw, and African Prince, Edinburgh: Printed by Hugh Inglis, 1790
- Cuguano, Ottobah. Thoughts and Sentiments of the Evil and Wicked Traffic of the Slavery and Commerce of the Human Species, Humbly Submitted to the Inhabitants of Great-Britain, 1787
- Project Gutenberg, Stanfield, James. A Guinea Voyage, A Poem, In Three Books, 1807
- Montgomery, Charles J. Survivors from the Cargo of the Negro Slave Yacht Wanderer, American Anthropologist 1908