Primary Source Learning: Slavery (U.S.)
Lesson plans & activities
- Collection Connections: Arts & Humanities, Critical Thinking & U.S. History teaching ideas
- Guided primary source analysis activities
- Learning from the Source: Close Reading in Service of a Cause
- Slavery in the United States: Primary Sources and the Historical Record
- These Maps Reveal How Slavery Expanded Across the United States Smithsonian
- Timely Connections: Individual Influence
- Timely Connections: James Madison & Slavery
Teaching with the Library of Congress blog posts
- 12 Years a Slave: Primary Sources on the Kidnapping of Free African Americans November 19, 2013
- Education in Enslaved Communities August 16, 2022
- Expanding Student Understanding of Slavery in America by Exploring an Arabic Muslim Slave Narrative March 12, 2019
- Primary Sources for Musical Learning: Irene Williams Remembers Slavery May 30, 2019
- Teaching with Music from the Voices Remembering Slavery Collection November 26, 2021
Related teaching resources
- Primary Source Learning: Oral Histories & Personal Narratives
- Selecting Primary Sources That Deal with Difficult Issues
- Teaching Now: Using the Primary Source Analysis Tool
Related primary sources