A Teacher's Guide to Folklife Resources

Materials Related to Slavery

There are 3 titles in this list.

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Creativity and Resistance: Maroon Cultures in the Americas
by Dr. Diana Baird N'Diaye, Dr. Thomas Polime, and Dr. Ken Bilby; Maroon Community Advisors: Mr. Adiante Franzoon, Suriname, Mr. William Warrior, Seminoles, and Colonel C.L.G. Harris, Jamaica; Dr. Shirley Mock, UT Institute of Texan Cultures at San Antonio;

Subjects: Caribbean Culture; History; Geography; Latin American Culture; Slavery; Beliefs and Spirituality;
Locations: Caribbean; Latin America; Mexico; Jamaica; Suriname; French Guiana;

http://www.folklife.si.edu/resources/maroon/presentation.htm

Online exhibition treats the history and culture of Maroon communities in Suriname, French Guiana, and Jamaica, and also the Seminole Maroon communities along the U.S.-Mexico border. It includes a teacher's guide. The exhibition Creativity and Resistance was organized by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES) in collaboration with the Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage.

Published by:
Smithsonian Institution Center for Folklife and Cultural Heritage
Washington, DC

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History of Jim Crow
by PBS
free
Subjects: Social Justice; Slavery; History; African American Culture;
Locations: Southern States (U.S.);

http://www.jimcrowhistory.org/home.htm

A four-part television series about issues surrounding segregation and the civil rights movement in the American South. This site has a wide array of teaching materials, including many full lesson plans, narratives from black and white people who came of age during the Jim Crow years, interactive web-based modules designed for student or teacher use, an image gallery, and links to student and teacher evaluated websites about Jim Crow.

Published by:
Public Broadcasting Service
1320 Braddock Place
Alexandria, VA 22314

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Journey's End : The Memories and Traditions of Daisy Turner and Her Family
by Jane Beck, Wes Graff, Gregory Sharrow

Subjects: History; Geography; Slavery; African American Culture;
Locations: Vermont; New England; Virginia; Africa;

http://www.vermontfolklifecenter.org/

Daisy Turner was born in 1883 at Journey's End, the farm her father, Alec Turner, cleared. Her family settled in Grafton, Vermont after the Civil War. She lived to be 104, dying in 1988. The audiocassette, narrated by Barbara Jordon, relates Turner's family history, detailing her father's path from slavery to freedom. This Peabody Award winning production is now an NPR radio series. The videotape "On My Own : The Traditions of Daisy Turner," produced by Jane Beck and Wes Graff presents her recollections. A teacher's guide to both tapes by Gregory Sharrow and a children's book, Daisy and the Doll, based on this story, are also available from the Vermont Folklife Center.

Published by:
Vermont Folklife Center
PO Box 442
Middlebury, VT 05753
802/388-4964