Teaching Hard History Text Library
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Welcome to the Teaching Hard History Text Library. This collection includes more than 100 primary sources selected to support robust teaching and learning about the Key Concepts and Summary Objectives found in A Framework for Teaching American Slavery. The texts are also mapped to the four domains of the Social Justice Standards. Each includes a set of text-dependent questions.

Text Type
Grade Level
Social Justice Domain
Subject

155 Texts

Informational

Will of Robert Johnston

This is a will of an enslaver from 1776. It shows how enslaved persons were treated as property to be passed down through generations.
by
Robert Johnston
Grade Level
Topic
Subject
History
Economics
December 15, 2017
Informational

Thanksgiving Sermon

This is a sermon by Benjamin Morgan Palmer that argues for the preservation of slavery. It gives students a close look at the religious arguments made for the institution of slavery.
by
Benjamin Morgan Palmer
Grade Level
Topic
Subject
History
Social Justice Domain
December 15, 2017
Informational

An Abolition Traitor

A Democratic laborer comments on the problem of abolitionism in the North as well as the South, claiming that the emancipation of enslaved people will result in the damaging of white labor rights and opportunities.
by
Democratic Workingman (Anonymous)
Grade Level
Topic
Subject
History
Social Justice Domain
December 15, 2017
Informational

An Act for Prohibiting the Importation of Negroes, June 1774

With this text, the colony of Rhode Island outlawed the importation of enslaved Africans and established the immediate emancipation of enslaved people in the colony in 1774. However, the law stipulated some important exceptions that made this change particularly ineffective.
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Colony of Rhode Island
Grade Level
Topic
Subject
History
Social Justice Domain
December 15, 2017
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