Curated OER
Stowe's Reviewers
Young scholars read, evaluate and respond to both positive and negative reviews of Harriet Beecher Stow's, Uncle Tom's Cabin.
Curated OER
Eighth Grade Social Studies Test
For this Georgia social studies assessment worksheet, 8th graders respond to 30 multiple choice questions based on 8th grade social studies skills.
Other
Geni: American Abolitionist Movement
Looks at the history of the abolitionist movement in the United States, the key people involved, and important events.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Abolitionist Map of America
Through an interactive map, tours, documents, images, and videos, explore the account of the abolitionist movement in America.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Primary Source Set: The American Abolitionist Movement
A collection that uses primary sources to explore the American Abolitionist Movement.
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Photo Gallery: Significant Abolitionists
Learn about the countless people who made important contributions to the abolitionist movement to end slavery. In this photo gallery from American Experience, explore some of these leaders and their vocations.
Siteseen
Siteseen: American Historama: The Abolitionist Movement
Learn the history of the Abolitionist Movement that was established in the free states of the North to abolish the institution of slavery in the South.
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: The American Abolitionist Movement
The resources in this set highlight the people and political acts that were central to the abolitionist movement.
Other
American Abolitionism Project: A Brief History of American Abolitionist Movement
Provides a short history of the American abolitionist movement, and breaks the movement down into different categories of abolitionists and some key people involved in each group. Includes links to additional information.
University of Groningen
American History: Outlines: The Abolitionists
Outline of the beginning of the Abolitionist Movement in a pre-Civil War America as part of the sectional conflict between the North and South.
Louisiana Department of Education
Louisiana Doe: Louisiana Believes: Grade 7 Social Studies: Abolitionist Movement
This sample task contains a set of primary and authentic sources about the fundamental beliefs that shaped the abolitionist movement.
University of Virginia
The University of Virginia: My Escape From Slavery
The full text of a famous work by Frederick Douglass that made a huge impact on the abolitionist movement.
National Endowment for the Humanities
Neh: Edsit Ement: Perspective on the Slave Narrative
A lesson plan focusing on the the historical context of slave narratives, "Perspective on the Slave Narrative" introduces learners to the abolitionist movement and the slave experience.
British Library
British Library: The Slave Trade
An article describing the historical background to the Abolitionist movement in England, giving details on the slave trade and more.
The History Cat
The History Cat: The Abolitionists
Describes the abolitionist movement and the people who pushed for the abolition of slavery, especially William Lloyd Garrison who founded the Liberator newspaper and the New England Anti-Slavery Society. Arguments for slavery were put...
Emory University
Lewis H. Beck Center: Child, Lydia: The Stars and Stripes: A Melodrama
Read Lydia Maria Child's "The Stars and Stripes: A Melodrama." This play, originally published in the National Antislavery Standard (1853), served as propaganda for the abolitionist movement.
Library of Congress
Loc: African American Odyssey: Abolition, Anti Slavery Movements
A section of an online exhibit that deals with historically important documents about the abolition movement from its earliest Quaker beginnings in the early 18th century through 1860.
PBS
Pbs: Cet: Africans in America: The Raid on Harper's Ferry
PBS' four-part series, "Africans in America," highlights the antislavery movement, including a focus on John Brown's Raid on Harpers Ferry. Content includes a description of the event, as well as the after-effects including the news of...
Library of Congress
Loc: African American Mosaic: Influence of Prominent Abolitionists
See documents and pictures of those actively involved in the anti-slavery movement. From the Library of Congress.
Other
Abolitionists, Free Blacks, and Runaway Slaves: Surviving Slavery in Maryland
Read about the groups of people who lived on the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the mid-1800s and fought against slavery: the Quakers, former slaves, and fugitive slaves. This article describes the efforts of both whites and blacks, who...
Library of Congress
Loc: African American Odyssey: Abolition, Anti Slavery Movements
This site provides primary source documents and commentary that give an overall look at many different aspects of abolition, the antislavery movement, and the rise of division between North and South. From the Library of Congress.
National Humanities Center
National Humanities Center: America in Class: The Religious Roots of Abolition
A lesson that looks at the role of Christianity in the fight to abolish slavery in the United States.
National Women’s History Museum
National Women's History Museum: Woman's Suffrage Timeline
Learn the history of women's suffrage with this interactive timeline.
Other
Univ. Of Detroit Mercy Black Abolitionist Archive: Black Abolitionist Archive
A collection of speeches by African American abolitionists from the 1800s, accompanied by interpretative readings in audio files.