18th Century American Slavery and Roots
Lives Bound Together Interview Project Pages 2024-25 Frankmann Montello Tyrrell
Lives Bound Together Interview Project Pages 2023-24 Frankmann Montello/Krontz Tyrrell
Lives Bound Together Interview Project Pages 2022: Frankmann Knapp Tyrrell
Lives Bound Together Interview Project Pages 2021: Frankmann Knapp Tyrrell
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Below are links to the websites that you are asked to explore for homework during our viewing of Roots.
Overall Resources
ABC-CLIO Articles and Features: Slavery, African Slave Trade, Middle Passage, Slave Codes, Daily Life and Culture in Enslaved Communities, Slave Labor on Southern Plantations, Colonial Economy, Slavery in Mid 18th Century Virginia, Indentured Servitude
Slavery and the Making of America- PBS Companion Website
National Museum of African American History home page
National Museum of African American History and Culture SEARCHABLE MUSEUM Gateway.
NMAAHC Online Exhibit: Slavery and Freedom
NMAAHC Searchable Museum Exhibit: Slavery and Freedom 1400-1877
Library of Congress Slave Narratives
Digital Library on American Slavery (Indexed by topic)
The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas- A Visual Record (amazing image collection)
Discover the Transatlantic Slave Trade to the 13th Amendment (Interactive by Google Arts and Culture and the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center)
American Slavery (The History Channel)
Slave Trade and Middle Passage
Life of Olaudah Equiano (Primary Source Account) Biography of Olaudah Equiano
The Triangular Trade- Interactive Feature
BBC Casa Historia Feature on Slavery
International Slavery Museum- Liverpool
Annapolis and the Slave Trade (Travel Blog related to Roots)
Slave Voyages (extensive resources on the Atlantic Slave Trade)
The Transatlantic Slave Trade TED video.
Library of Congress: Journey in Chains + Africans in American
Slavery in America- Plantation Life, Roles, Resistance
Gilder Lehrman Historical Context: Facts about the Slave Trade and Slavery
Slavery and the Making of America-PBS
Encyclopedia Virginia, Housing for the Enslaved in Virginia
MOUNT VERNON
Mount Vernon- Slavery
Mount Vernon- Lives Bound Together Online Exhibit
Mount Vernon- Intertwined... Podcast about the lives of the enslaved persons featured in the Lives Bound Together Online Exhibit.
Mount Vernon- Lives Bound Together Quiz (Fun, thought provoking 15 question quiz about slavery and George Washington)
Mount Vernon- George Washington and Slavery
George Washington and Slavery- 10 Facts
The Private Life of George Washington's Slaves
MONTICELLO
Monticello- Slavery at Monticello: Paradox of Liberty
MONTPELIER
Montpelier (James Madison Plantation)
Exhibit- The Mere Distinction of Color
COLONIAL WILLIAMSBURG
Colonial Williamsburg- Interpreting the Lives of Enslaved Persons
Colonial Williamsburg and UNESCO- Slavery and Remembrance
Colonial Williamsburg Videos About African American History (74 videos)
Colonial Williamsburg- "Created Equal" Theatre Performance Video about Enslaved African Americans and the Declaration of Independence
Colonial Williamsburg- How to Read Runaway Ads
Additional resources from 2020 MOUNT VERNON SYMPOSIUM ON TEACHING RACISM AND SLAVERY
New Collection From: Oct 2020 Mt. Vernon Symposium on Teaching Racism and Slavery Session Index
Mt. Vernon Symposium "Connect and Reflect" Padlets
Database of Mount Vernon's Enslaved Community
Mount Vernon Slave Cemetery Survey
George Washington's List of Enslaved People 1799
Teaching Hard History- American Slavery
"Step Inside" Perspective Taking Process
Mount Vernon Museum Exhibit Collections
Mount Vernon Virtual Tour
Great Dismal Swamp VA/NC... place of refuge for Runaways within the Colonies (article/podcast)
Free Design Creation App/Site- Canva.com
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LIVES BOUND TOGETHER RESOURCES
Mount Vernon- Slavery
Lives Bound Together Online Exhibit
Lives Bound Together Intro Video
Lives Bound Together- Biographies of the Enslaved
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Washington's Changing Views on Slavery- Article
Washington's Journey to Emancipation- Article
Lesson Plan- George Washington's Views on Slavery
National Archives- Founders Online
Virginia Humanities- Encyclopedia Virginia
Enslaved Choices (PDF Collection of Documents from NCSS)
HMS Savage- Story of 17 Mount Vernon Slaves who escaped when this ship anchored at Mt. Vernon in 1781
HSI Interactive: Finding Aaron- 18th C. Slavery through Virginia Gazette articles.
Brad Meltzer’s Decoded: The Declaration of Independence / Full Episode / History
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1776 and War for Independence
War for Independence Museum Projects 2019-20
War for Independence Museum Projects 2021-22
Dramatic Reading of the Declaration of Independence
"Too Late to 'Pologize" Music Video
War for Independence Resources
Our American Revolution- Colonial Williamsburg Site
American Battlefield Trust Video- War for Independence Animated Map (18 minutes covering the whole war)
Mount Vernon: Washington and the American Revolution
Mount Vernon Video: We Fight to be Free
Mount Vernon: Now or Never - The Yorktown Campaign of 1781
Timeline of Washington in the War for Independence
George Washington's Military Service Quiz (Mount Vernon)
Revolutionary Choices Game (can you win the War for Independence?)
Quiz: How Well do you know the American Revolutionary War? (American Battlefield Trust)
How an 18th Century Warship Works (Great 3D Deconstruction)
Battlefields.Org- Revolutionary War Home Page: See Overview, Timeline, FAQ's, Battles
Smithsonian Price of Freedom Online Exhibit (choose Revolution from timeline)
Museum of the American Revolution
National Parks Revolutionary War Sites
NPS Official Handbook of the American Revolution (PDF download)
Links to all National Parks / Historic Sites- Alphabetical
Liberty ! The American Revolution (PBS)
Journal of the American Revolution
Entire American Revolution Animated Map- National Battlefield Trust
Battle of Bunker Hill in 4 Minutes Video
Liberty Kids Battle of Bunker HIll
Revolutionary War Battle Tactics- Interactive
Brainpop Interactive Timeline of the American Revolution
The Indian's War of Independence- Gilder Lerhman
War in the North
Lexington and Concord in 4 Minutes
Battle of Bunker Hill in 4 Minutes
War in the Middle Colonies
Battle of Brooklyn in 4 Minutes
Hessians in the Revolutionary War in 4 Minutes
Washington's Crossing in 4 Minutes
Battle of Second Trenton in 4 Minutes
Battle of Princeton in 4 Minutes
Battle of Brandywine in 4 Minutes
The Continental Soldier in 4 Minutes
War in the South
British Strategy in the Revolutionary War in 4 Minutes
Combat Strategy in the Revolutionary War in 4 Minutes
War Journalism Project Research Resources
Easy Bib (For making your Bibliography)
Bibme- MLA Format... generates correct MLA Citations
OWL- Purdue MLA Citation Guide (Click on menu on left for examples of how to cite specific sources)