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December 14, 2017

Wait. Flint Is Still Without Clean Water? How Can I Help?

Volunteers put their hands together in solidarity.

While Flint, Michigan, now has a contract for a clean water source, residents aren’t out of the woods yet. Keep in mind these five actions when taking a stand for Flint residents affected by the water crisis.

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Rights & Activism

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An Ex-Slaveholder's View of the Negro Question in the South

Written in 1900, this text presents the views of a former enslaver about the value of slavery for those enslaved.

Colonel Robert Bingham

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

December 14, 2017

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Dockery: The Life and Times of Oliver Hart Dockery—A Colored Narrative

An excerpted biography of a colonel from 1888 that shows how views about race evolved for some while racism persisted.

Unknown

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

Civics

History

December 14, 2017

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John W. Jordan to John A. McDonnell (1868)

Letter written between representatives of the Freedmen’s Bureau in the years immediately following the Civil War. The letter talks about a demonstration of the Ku Klux Klan.

John W. Jordan

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

Civics

History

Geography

December 14, 2017

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Male Prisoners Hoeing a Field

The photo shows African-American men hoeing in the field of a prison.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

December 14, 2017

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Confederate Script

Digital, in-color images of Confederate bills: $1, $2, $5, $10, $50, $500.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

December 14, 2017

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Slave Houses, Louisiana (1853)

The drawing is a visual description that seeks to portray enslaved people as enjoying a relatively stable home life with people playing music, dancing and courting.

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

December 14, 2017

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Visual

The History of Jamaica

The image is an 18th-century hand-drawn map of Caribbean islands and Central America with Jamaica at the center.

Edward Long

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

December 14, 2017

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Informational

Dedication to “The Barbarism of Slavery” Speech

The introduction to Senator Charles Sumner’s famous anti-slavery speech, summarizing the speech’s arguments and making the case against slavery.

Charles Sumner

Grade Level

9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

Civics

History

December 13, 2017

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Branding Slaves

This is an image of enslavers burning brands into the skin of people they enslaved, this engraving illustrates the way that enslaved people were treated as property.

William O. Blake

Grade Level

6-8 9-12

Topic

Slavery

Subject

History

Geography

December 13, 2017

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