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You must use at least three assigned sources that you completed during weeks 1-4 of Interdisciplinary 11, trimester 2. Below you will find the titles of each text and names of the corresponding assessment in Canvas.
Source 1: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass an American Slave by Frederick Douglass
Source 2: “Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation” by Professor Allen C. Guelzo
Source 3: Lincoln (the film)
Source 4: To Colored Men! (recruitment poster)
Source 5: The Confessions of Nat Turner as made to Thomas R. Gray: and/or "Nat Turner and the Rebellion That Shook the South" (video)
Update through source 5 (12/16/24)
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For sources 6 - 15, see Canvas and this presentation.
In addition to the assigned documents, you may use anything found here. If you use a source from this list, it will not count as one of your three required sources. This will be a 4th, additional source, and may help you to develop a more sophisticated argument.
Abraham Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation with an introduction by Allen C. Guelzo
Gilder Lehrman Online Exhibition: Lincoln and the Emancipation Proclamation
Chapter 3: “Little Crow’s War” from Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
"Ain't I a Woman" by Sojourner Truth, p. 625 and optional History this Week podcast episode: "Sojourner's Truth"
Harriet Tubman overview from History.com
Washington Post Article: "Controversial Lincoln statue is removed in Boston, but remains in D.C."
John Brown's Motivational Documents, downloaded from Stanford University's History Education Group website and John Brown's Blessing (image) by Thomas Satterwhite Noble
The American YAWP (APUSH Online Textbook)
Lincoln (the movie)
Documents from the Black Military Experience collected by the University of Maryland's Freedman and Southern Society Project
"Men of Color, To Arms!" - F. Douglass speech calling all able-bodied African Americans to take up arms in defense of the Union.
Petition of 1788 for the Abolition of Slavery in Connecticut, by Enslaved People of New Haven by Blacks of New Haven City: This was one of many petitions submitted to the Connecticut General Assembly in 1788, appealing for enslaved people’s liberation.
Elizabeth Freeman (Mum Bett) Bio: If you focus your research on this figure, you will need to do a more thorough search.
When Abraham Lincoln Tried to Resettle Free Black Americans in the Caribbean: Lincoln wanted to end slavery—but wasn’t keen on integrating African Americans into US society. His first attempt to send them offshore proved disastrous.