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The Free Black Community
TOPICS >>>
Black Abolitionism
Founding of African Methodist Episcopal Church
Prince Hall Masonic Lodges
Underground Railroad
Compromise of 1850 and the Fugitive Slave Law
Dred Scott decision, 1857
Slave Conduct:
Sabotage, strikes, conspiracies,
work slowdowns, overt resistance; slaveholders, CSA responds with new
methods of social control
Founding of African-American colleges and universities, 1865-1900:
Atlanta University, Howard,
Morehouse, Fisk, Hampton, Spelman, etc.
The class and color divisions among the African-American leadership:
Francis L. Cardozo, Robert Elliott;
J.J. Wright; James Rapier of Alabama;
Jonathan C. Gibbs of Florida; Martin Delany, Beverly Nash of South Carolina;
Land Policies in the south:
Sherman's Order No. 15--appeared to expropriate land for the slaves
PERSONALITIES >>>
Harriet Tubman militant
abolitionist in the underground railroad,
head of intelligence unit in the union army during Civil War
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper abolitionist
lecturer, poet, community leader
supported women's suffrage, challenged sexism
READINGS >>>
Harding, There
Is A River Chapters VI,
VII, VIII, IX and X, pp. 117-218.
Marable and Mullings, eds.,
Let Nobody Turn Us Around Section
One, Numbers 2-4, pp. 16-35; Number 7, pp. 42-47; Number 12, pp. 58-64;
Numbers 14-16, pp. 67-91; and Number 18, pp. 110-114.
MULTIMEDIA >>>
Films: Any films about black
abolitionists Ð Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, Martin R. Delany.
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