NCSS Notable Books on African American History
The link will take to an Amazon list of NCSS Notable Books on African American History. List includes titles suitable for elementary, middle, and high school students.
G. Timothy Cranston We Were Here Too, Selected Stories of Black History in North Kingstown, 2014
Rhode Island Historical Society
The Mobile Black History Museum (link to article and contact information)
This was the home, and place of business, for more than 40 years of Rhode Island's greatest statesman, Stephen Hopkins. He served 25 years in RI's colonial Assembly, ten terms as Governor, was Brown's first Chancellor, Chief Justice for the Gaspee Affair, and ultimately a Signer of the Declaration of Independence.
Though a Quaker, his life reflects a complex character and the conflicts people dealt with even in their day.
Hopkins did sign what was effectively an Act of War, even producing in the iron foundry he co-owned with the Brown brothers, 67 cannon to fight the Revolution. And while we believe he did not engage in the infamous Triangle Trade, he did own slaves, who worked in his house and on his farmland. Their labour, though not visible like the building of University Hall up on the Brown campus, made his stellar career with all its accomplishments possible.
We began to incorporate the slaves' contribution into the story & spaces of the SHH in 2010, and it has met with a very positive response from our visitors. Contact Kim Clark, 401.421.0694.
The North Burial Ground Project includes biographies on notable individuals buried there, in addition to walking tours and maps.
The Jacob D. Babcock house at 20 High St., Ashaway, was the first Rhode Island stop on the Underground Railroad, the secret system of helping fugitive slaves escape to Canada by hiding them in a succession of private homes by day and moving them farther north by night.
Providence Athenaeum 251 Benefit Street Providence, RI Phone: 401-421-6970
John Brown House Museum 52 Power Street Providence, RI, 02906 Phone: 401-273-7507
Mixed Magic Theater, 560 Mineral Spring Street 02860, 401 305-7333
Little Compton Historical Society Includes information regarding enslaved African and Native Americans between 1676 and 1816; contact Marjory O’Toole
Brick Schoolhouse, 24 Meeting St, Providence, The Providence Preservation Society
New Goree Neighborhood, Bristol African-American neighborhood walking-tour.
The Rev. Mahlon Van Horne Home, 47 John St Newport, pastor of the Union Colored Congregation Church, the earliest black church in RI.
Prudence Crandall Museum, 1 South Canterbury Road, Canterbury CT, Wednesday through Sunday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. 860-546-7800
Searchable database of digitized documents related to state governance
Digitized records from African American Collection
Records and documents related to slavery in Rhode Island from 1652-1885
Rhode Island Black Storytellers
John Brown and the Rhode Island Slave Trade (video) C. Morgan Grefe toured the John Brown exhibit and talked about John Brown’s role in the slave trade. Rhode Island was the largest importer of slaves among the states along the Atlantic.
Slave Life | God's Little Acre
Tracing Center | James DeWolf and the DeWolf Family
Slavery in Rhode Island - Slavery in the North
The Rhode Island Black Heritage Society | Wix.com
1st Rhode Island Regiment | The Black Past: Remembered
Rhode Island Society of the Sons of the American
Small State, Big HIstory Christian McBurney, Editor and Publisher, The Online Review of Rhode Island History
A Forgotten History: The Slave Trade and Slavery in New England. From Brown University, Choices Program
What Kids Are Really Learning About Slavery (Article from The Atlantic Magazine )
For All the World to See: Visual History and Civil Rights (includes Lesson Plans and artifact rental)
Searchable database of coroner’s inquests in South Carolina. Slate article by Rebecca Onion discussing the database.
Mississippi Documenting Runaway Slaves
Louisiana Runaway Slave Advertisements, 1836-1865
North Carolina Slave Advertisements
Virginia: The Geography of Slavery (primary and secondary sources)
HIstoric Hudson Valley (curriculum module using runaway slave ads)
O Say Can You See: Early WAshington, D.C Law and Family (showcases the diversity of strategies that black people living in DC used to gain freedom through the courts in the Antebellum period.) Slate article describing records
Selma: The Marches Captured in Stephen Somerstein’s Pictures
Putting the Movement Back into Teaching Civil Rights Additional resources to accompany the book of the same name. Book is available here.
Suppression of Photographers in the Civil Rights Movement
Black Leaders as Obituaries Portrayed Them
MLK’s 1964 Nobel Peace Prize Lecture audio recording
The Limits of Master Narratives in History Textbooks: An Analysis of Representations of Martin Luther KIng, Jr.
Teaching MLK’s LIfe-- The Man, Not the Myth
Martin Luther King, Jr. Was More Radical Than We Remember (Teen Vogue)
Film kits available FREE OF CHARGE from Teaching Tolerance Titles include:
28 Days, 28 Films for Black History Month ( from the New York Times)
The Birth of Race-Based Slavery
The Half Has Never Be Told (excerpt from the book by Edward Baptist.