Jeffrey Brace, The Blind African Slave

Teaching guide for the 1810 narrative of Jeffrey Brace, born in Mali, transported as a slave to Barbados and New England, and residing in Vermont.  Includes discussion questions and timeline.

Early African American Antislavery Sermons

Teaching guide employing the texts of Absalom Jones's A Thanksgiving Sermon (1808), William Miller's A Sermon on the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1810), and George Lawrence's An Oration on the Abolition of the Slave Trade (1813).  Includes timeline of early African American religious history and discussion questions.

Boston King, Memoirs

Teaching guide to the autobiographical memoir of Boston King, a fugitive slave from South Carolina who became a teacher and minister in Sierra Leone, serialized in 1798 in The Methodist Magazine. A digital edition and video/audio reading performance by Prof. Neal Lester accompany this guide.

Henry Clarke Wright, The Natick Resolution, or, Resistance to Slaveholders the Right and Duty of Southern Slaves and Northern Freemen

Teaching guide for a militant 1859 antislavery tract calling for violent overthrow of slavery, published by Henry Clarke Wright in Boston.  A digital edition and video/audio reading performance by Prof. Keith Miller accompany this guide.