Frederick Douglass, Slavery, and the Constitution, 1845

Frederick Douglass, Slavery, and the Constitution, 1845
Author: Mark Higbee
Publisher:
Total Pages: 156
Release: 2016
Genre: Abolitionists
ISBN:

A game that utilizes the 'Reacting to the Past' method to educate college students about slavery and abolitionism. "In the first part of the game, is a review of the newly published 'The Narrative of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself' at a literary forum hosted by the illustrious English author Charles Dickens in New York. The second part of th game focuses upon John C. Calhoun of South Carolina and his view of slavery as a 'positive good.' Finally, players address the U.S. Constitution, its original protections of the slaveholders' power, and the question, are Americans more beholden to the Constitution or to some "higher law"? Each part of the game is a Meeting."

Frederick Douglass, Slavery, and the Constitution, 1845

Frederick Douglass, Slavery, and the Constitution, 1845
Author: Mark Higbee
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2019
Genre: Antislavery movements
ISBN: 9780393680638

Reacting to the Past is an award-winning series of immersive role-playing games that actively engage students in their own learning. Students assume the roles of historical characters to practice critical thinking, primary source analysis, and both written and spoken argument. Reacting games are flexible enough to be used across the curriculum, from first-year general education classes and discussion sections of lecture classes to capstone experiences and honors programs.

The Constitutional Convention of 1787

The Constitutional Convention of 1787
Author: John Patrick Coby
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 429
Release: 2022-07-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1469672278

The Constitutional Convention of 1787 brings to life the debates that most profoundly shaped American government. As representatives to the convention, students must investigate the ideological arguments behind possible structures for a new government and create a new constitution.

A Glorious Liberty

A Glorious Liberty
Author: Damon Root
Publisher: Potomac Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1640122354

2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title In this timely and provocative book, Damon Root reveals how Frederick Douglass’s fight for an antislavery Constitution helped to shape the course of American history in the nineteenth century and beyond. At a time when the principles of the Constitution and Declaration of Independence were under assault, Frederick Douglass picked up their banner, championing inalienable rights for all, regardless of race. When Americans were killing each other on the battlefield, Douglass fought for a cause greater than the mere preservation of the Union. “No war but an Abolition war,” he maintained. “No peace but an Abolition peace.” In the aftermath of the Civil War, when state and local governments were violating the rights of the recently emancipated, Douglass preached the importance of “the ballot-box, the jury-box, and the cartridge-box” in the struggle against Jim Crow. Frederick Douglass, the former slave who had secretly taught himself how to read, would teach the American people a thing or two about the true meaning of the Constitution. This is the story of a fundamental debate that goes to the very heart of America’s founding ideals—a debate that is still very much with us today.

My Escape from Slavery

My Escape from Slavery
Author: Frederick Douglass
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2017-10-24
Genre:
ISBN: 9781978444942

Frederick Douglass was born a slave in Maryland around February 1818. He escaped in 1838, but in each of the three accounts he wrote of his life he did not give any details of how he gained his freedom lest slaveholders use the information to prevent other slaves from escaping, and to prevent those who had helped him from being punished.

The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative

The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative
Author: Audrey Fisch
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 230
Release: 2007-05-31
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1139827596

The slave narrative has become a crucial genre within African American literary studies and an invaluable record of the experience and history of slavery in the United States. This Companion examines the slave narrative's relation to British and American abolitionism, Anglo-American literary traditions such as autobiography and sentimental literature, and the larger African American literary tradition. Special attention is paid to leading exponents of the genre such as Olaudah Equiano, Frederick Douglass and Harriet Jacobs, as well as many other, less well known examples. Further essays explore the rediscovery of the slave narrative and its subsequent critical reception, as well as the uses to which the genre is put by modern authors such as Toni Morrison. With its chronology and guide to further reading, the Companion provides both an easy entry point for students new to the subject and comprehensive coverage and original insights for scholars in the field.

The Color Of Abolition

The Color Of Abolition
Author: Linda Hirshman
Publisher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 448
Release: 2022-02-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 1328900355

The story of the fascinating, fraught alliance among Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison, and Maria Weston Chapman—and how its breakup led to the success of America’s most important social movement. “Fresh, provocative and engrossing.” —New York Times In the crucial early years of the Abolition movement, the Boston branch of the cause seized upon the star power of the eloquent ex-slave Frederick Douglass to make its case for slaves’ freedom. Journalist William Lloyd Garrison promoted emancipation while Garrison loyalist Maria Weston Chapman, known as “the Contessa,” raised money and managed Douglass’s speaking tour from her Boston townhouse. Conventional histories have seen Douglass’s departure for the New York wing of the Abolition party as a result of a rift between Douglass and Garrison. But, as acclaimed historian Linda Hirshman reveals, this completely misses the woman in power. Weston Chapman wrote cutting letters to Douglass, doubting his loyalty; the Bostonian abolitionists were shot through with racist prejudice, even aiming the N-word at Douglass among themselves. Through incisive, original analysis, Hirshman convinces that the inevitable breakup was in fact a successful failure. Eventually, as the most sought-after Black activist in America, Douglass was able to dangle the prize of his endorsement over the Republican Party’s candidate for president, Abraham Lincoln. Two years later the abolition of slavery—if not the abolition of racism—became immutable law.

Slavery on Trial

Slavery on Trial
Author: Jeannine Marie DeLombard
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 345
Release: 2009-06-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807887730

America's legal consciousness was high during the era that saw the imprisonment of abolitionist editor William Lloyd Garrison, the execution of slave revolutionary Nat Turner, and the hangings of John Brown and his Harpers Ferry co-conspirators. Jeannine Marie DeLombard examines how debates over slavery in the three decades before the Civil War employed legal language to "try" the case for slavery in the court of public opinion via popular print media. Discussing autobiographies by Frederick Douglass, a scandal narrative about Sojourner Truth, an abolitionist speech by Henry David Thoreau, sentimental fiction by Harriet Beecher Stowe, and a proslavery novel by William MacCreary Burwell, DeLombard argues that American literature of the era cannot be fully understood without an appreciation for the slavery debate in the courts and in print. Combining legal, literary, and book history approaches, Slavery on Trial provides a refreshing alternative to the official perspectives offered by the nation's founding documents, legal treatises, statutes, and judicial decisions. DeLombard invites us to view the intersection of slavery and law as so many antebellum Americans did--through the lens of popular print culture.