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Frederick Douglass in Chinese

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African American literature of slavery has a translation history dating from at least the 1840s.  One of the Project's collections addresses this history, with special attention to translations of Frederick Douglass published from the 19th-century to the present day.  The collection includes podcast readings of selected chapters from Douglass' 1845 narrative in French, Hebrew, Spanish, and most recently a Chinese reading by Prof. John Zou.  Read more...
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Antislavery Teaching Guides

by Antislavery Webmaster last modified 2008-08-30 21:39

These teaching guides provide introductions and instructional materials for selected antislavery texts.

 

 

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.