Resources from Mass Moments
MassMoments is a website created by the MassHumanities and includes a different event in Massachusetts history for every day of the year. Many events are about slavery and anti-slavery issues in the state. Each moment includes a primary source related to the event, suggestions for further resources, and audio of the moment.
- First Slaves Arrive in Massachusetts
- Angelina Grimke Addresses Massachusetts LegislatureGrimke presented anti-slavery petitions signed by 20,000 Massachusetts women.
- Massachusetts Newspaper Publishes First Installment of Uncle Tom's Cabin
- Massachusetts Jury Decides in Favor of Elizabeth "Mum Bett" Freeman
- Massachusetts Legislature Guarantees Access to Public Schools
Websites
- Museum of African American HistoryThis museum is the largest museum in New England dedicated to preserving, conserving, and accurately interpreting the history of African Americans in Boston and Nantucket. The museum offers interactive exhibits, a walking tour of the Black Heritage Trail, and monthly programs.
- African Americans and the End of Slavery in Massachusetts
- Royall House and Slave Quarters
African Americans
- The Other Brahmins: Boston’s Black Upper Class, 1750-1950 - Adelaide M. Cromwell
- Twenty Families of Color in Massachusetts, 1742-1998 - Franklin Dorman
Family histories of 20 African American families in Massachusetts, in genealogical format. Good example of kinds of information which can be unearthed using genealogical methods and resources. - The African American Meeting House in Boston: A Celebration of History - Robert C. Hayden
- African-Americans in Boston: More than 350 Years - Robert C. Hayden
People, events and places that shaped African American history in Boston. - Black Bostonians: Family Life and Community Struggle in the Antebellum North - James Oliver Horton
Comprehensive social history of a vibrant northern black community that was a center of the antislavery movement. An updated version of a work first published in 1979. - Black Yankees: The Development of an Afro-American Subculture in Eighteenth-Century New England - William D. Piersen
- Amos Fortune: Free Man - Elizabeth Yates
Life of the 18th century African prince who was brought to Massachusetts as a slave, where he lived until he was able to buy his freedom at the age of 60.
For Elementary
Amistad Rising: A Story of Freedom - Veronica Chambers
A
fictional account of the 1839 revolt of Africans aboard the slave ship
Amistad and the subsequent legal case argued before the Supreme Court
in 1841 by former president John Quincy Adams.
The Frederick Douglass You Never Knew - James Lincoln Collier
Explores
the childhood, character, and influential events that shaped the life
of this former slave who went on to become an abolitionist and advisor
to Abraham Lincoln.
A Voice of Her Own: The Story of Phyllis Wheatley, Slave Poet - Kathryn Lasky
A
biography of an African girl brought to New England as a slave in 1761
who became famous on both sides of the Atlantic as the first Black poet
in America.
Slavery and the Making of America
Visit the film's website at http://www.pbs.org/wnet/slavery/index.html for classroom resources and historical information.
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Africans in America
Go to the film's website at http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html for teacher's guides and additional information.
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Primary Source Library |
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Elizabeth "Mumbet" Freeman
Mumbet: The Story of Elizabeth Freeman - Harold W. Felton
Biography of a slave who won her freedom in the Massachusetts courts in 1781.
The Ashley's: A Pioneer Berkshire Family - Arthur C. Chase
Account of the Ashley family and their home, in which the events that set the Elizabeth Freeman suit in motion took place.
- "The Story of Mumbet": A PlayDownload this play for use in your classroom.
- Mumbet Website
Lucy Terry Prince
Mr. and Mrs. Prince: How an Extraordinary Eighteenth-Century Family Moved Out of Slavery and into Legend - Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina
Lucy Terry Prince: Singer of History, A Biography - David R. Proper
Story of an African American woman in early New England, who began life
as a slave and whose poem "The Bars Fight," an account of the last
Indian raid on Deerfield, Massachusetts, may be the first published
African American poetry.
Black Woman: A Fictionalized Biography of Lucy Terry Prince - Bernard Katz and Jonathan Katz
A fictionalized biography of Lucy Terry Prince, an eighteenth-century slave who sought education and legal redress for her family through the courts.
- About Lucy Terry PrinceFrom the Guilford, Vermont, Central School, a history of Lucy Terry Prince.
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