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CURATOR’S BIBLIOGRAPHY

  • Berlin, Ira, and Leslie M. Harris, eds. Slavery in New York. New York: The New Press, 2005.
  • Blanton, Wyndham B. Medicine in Virginia in the Eighteenth Century. Richmond, VA: Garrett and Massie, 1931.
  • Bower, Anne L., ed. African American Foodways: Explorations of History & Culture. Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press. 2007.
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K–12 SUGGESTED READINGS

FICTION

  • Blos, Joan. A Gathering of Days: A New England Girl’s Journal, 1830–1832. New York: Aladdin Paperbacks, 1990.
    Level: Grades 6–8
    This fictional story centers around Catherine Hall, a thirteen-year-old girl living in rural New Hampshire. This novel, written in diary form, details Catherine’s life as she encounters and aids a runaway slave, mourns the death of her best friend, and adjusts to her father’s remarriage.
  • Collier, James and Christopher. Jump Ship to Freedom. New York: Yearling Books, 1987.
    Level: Grades 6–8
    The book chronicles the journey of Daniel Arabus, a fourteen-year-old slave in colonial America. After his father’s death, Arabus fights for his freedom and that of his mother from the household of Captain Ivers. To do so, he must recover the money his father earned as a solider during the American Revolution to prove his free status.
  • Erickson, Paul. Daily Life on a Southern Plantation 1853. New York: Puffin Books, 2000.
    Level: Grade 3–7
    This illustrated book details a typical day on a sugar plantation in 1853 and describes life in the antebellum south, including mealtimes, leisure hours, and slave meetings. Readers will learn about the origins and conventions of slavery, while following the lives of the Henderson family and their slaves in New Iberia, Louisiana.
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NONFICTION

  • Bial, Raymond. The Underground Railroad. New York: Houghton, 1999.
    Level: Grades 5–7
    Full color photographs of the relics of slavery in America illustrate this brief explanation of the institution of slavery and those who suffered under it.
  • DK Publishing Staff. Slavery: Real People and their Stories of Enslavement. London: Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2009.
    Level: Grades 3–7
    This title offers a thorough overview of the history of slavery in the United States using images and research to present stories of enslavement in an accessible, easy to read format.
  • Freedman, Russell. Lincoln: a Photobiography. New York: Clarion Books, 1987.
    Level: Grades 5–7
    Freedman delivers a biography of President Abraham Lincoln, illustrated by photographs.
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ONLINE RESOURCES

  • “A 19th Century Slave Diet.” National Park Service, U.S. Dept of the Interior.
    //www.nps.gov/bowa/learn/historyculture/upload/THE-FINAL-Slave-Diet-site-bulletin.pdf (accessed 10/21/2016).
    The National Park Service at the Booker T. Washington National Moment offers an introduction to 19th century slave diets, based on Booker T. Washington’s autobiographical works, The Story of My Life and Work and Up from Slavery.
  • “Foodways.” Colonial Williamsburg.
    http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/trades/tradefood.cfm (accessed 10/21/2016).
    Colonial Williamsburg’s Foodways explores role of food in the social lives of 18th-century Virginians. Learn about the distinctions between upper, middle, and lower class meals. On the left side of the page, select from a variety of topics to learn more about the people, places, and trades of colonials and African Americans in Virginia. On the right side of the page, the Department of Historic Foodways provides multimedia resources including journal articles and slideshows related to colonial food history.
  • “From Slavery to Freedom: The African-American Pamphlet Collection, 1822–1909.” Library of Congress.
    //www.loc.gov/teachers/classroommaterials/connections/slavery/file.html (accessed 10/21/2016).
    “From Slavery to Freedom” is a Library of Congress collection including 397 pamphlets published from 1822 through 1909, centering on African American history. This collection includes first-person accounts of slavery, tracts from anti-slavery organizations, legislative and presidential campaign materials, investigative reports, sermons, commencement addresses, organizational proceedings, and previously published materials from newspapers and magazines.
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