High School Unit I
Lesson B: Suggested Links & Resources
Resources
EDSITEment unit, "From Courage to Freedom: Frederick Douglass's 1845 Biography"
EDSITEment unit, "How people in the North and South reacted to the Emancipation Proclamation"
"Making the World Better: The Struggle for Equal Rights in Nineteenth Century America" focuses on two Massachusetts women— Sarah Parker Remond, an African-American abolitionist, and Lucy Stone. The unit includes a Teacher's Guide.
Books
The Black Presence in the Era of the American Revolution, by Sidney Kaplan and Emma Nogrady Kaplan (University of Massachusetts Press, 1989).
Courage and Conscience: Black & White Abolitionists in Boston, ed. by Donald M. Jacobs (Published for the Boston Athenaeum by Indiana University Press, 1993).
Sarah's Long Walk: The Free Blacks of Boston and How Their Struggle for Equality Changed America, by Stephen Kendrick and Paul Kendrick (Beacon Press, 2005). [Good source of information on Robert Morris.]
Links
For biographical information:
Biography of Theodore Parker. Scroll about two-thirds down for information about his abolitionist activities.
Biography of Thomas Wentworth Higginson