Slavery and American Memory – Resources for teachers and students

Text Resources

Neil McMillen, “WPA Slave Narratives,” Mississippi History Now, Feb. 2005 

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936-1938, Library of Congress

Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845)

Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)

The Interesting Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789)

 

Film

Unchained Memories produced by Jacqueline Glover and Thomas Lennon. Distributed by HBO Video, 2003.

Lesson Plan

“Remembering Slavery: The Pros and Cons of Oral History,” Sharon Ann Musher