Module 1: Minorities in Colonial America (1607 - 1783)
Description
Primary Source Reader
The "Business" of Slavery
- Document 1: Olaudah Equiano describes the Middle Passage
- Document 2: Advertisements, Slaves for Sale
- Document 3: Runaway Slave Ads
- Document 4: "Injured Humanity"
- Document 5: Slave Voyages Database
Slave Resistance & White Reaction
- Document 1: Virginia Slave Codes
- Document 2: Slave Resistance (excerpts from WPA Slave Narratives)
- Two Accounts of the Stono Rebellion
- Document 3: William Bull, Governor of Virginia
- Document 4: Account of Cato, as handed down orally by his family members
- Document 5: South Carolina Slave Codes
African Americans and the Revolution
- Document 1: Dunmore's Proclamation
- Document 2: Declaration of Independence (both drafts)
- Document 3: Peter Kiteridge Letter
- Document 4: Act Emancipating Slaves who Served in the Revolutionary Army (Georgia)
- Document 5: Abolishing Slavery in Pennsylvania
The Daily Lives of Women
- Document 1: Malleus Maleficarum
- Document 2: Eliza Lucas Letters
- Document 3: Sarah Logan Fisher Diary
- Document 4: Immigration Stories
- Document 5: Mary Cox, Petition for Support as a Widow
Women & the Revolution
- Document 1: Macauley-Warren Letter 1
- Document 2: Macauley-Warren Letter 2
- Document 3: Society of Patriotic Women
- Document 4: South Carolina Women Experience Occupation
- Document 5: Anna Rawle's Journal
- Document 6: Grace Barclay's Diary
Colliding Cultures: Indigenous Encounters with Europeans
- Document 1: Algonquin Village
- Document 2: John Lawson's "Encounters"
- Document 3: Pontiac Calls for War
- Document 4: Alabama Mingo Reflects on the British & the French
- Document 5: Algonquian Response to European Claims of Superiority