Biography Project
Biography Project:
African Americans Who Struggled to End Slavery
Why does the institution of slavery last as long as it does? Today we see the system of slavery as being unfair and unjust, but for over 200 years, the institution endured in our nation. Four factors helped to keep it in place:
- The legality of slavery
- The psychological effects of slavery
- The economics of slavery
- The violence of the slave system
You will research an individual who struggled to end slavery. With the information you gathered, you will write a 4 paragraph essay on their relationship to why slavery lasted so long. You will make a poster of the person with a quote of theirs.
Please use the History Resource Center for your research – http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/?userGroupName=s0003
You may also use the website Blackpast.org http://www.blackpast.org/
- Complete the Research sheet
- Find a likeness of your individual and make an 8 1/2 by 11 poster with their name, their picture, and a quote that you think exemplifies what the person believes, in relationship to slavery and bringing it to an end– (20 points)
Write four paragraphs. What did your individual do to fight slavery? Remember – you are not writing a standard biography, but you are describing and analyzing what this person did to end slavery.
- Legality, (20)
- Psychological effects, (20)
- Economics and (20)
- Violence of slavery. (20)
Be sure each paragraph is in RACE format. Attach these 4 typed paragraphs to the back of the poster.
Individuals for Biography Research
- Lemuel Haynes
- Paul Cuffe
- Richard Allen
- James Forten
- David Walker
- Sojourner Truth
- Nat Turner -
- Maria Stewart
- Joseph Cinque
- Henry Highland Garnett
- Frederick Douglass
- Henry Bibb
- Martin Delaney
- Gabriel Prosser
- Ellen Craft
- Frances Ellen Watkins
- William Lloyd Garrison
- Sarah and Emily Grimke
- Lucretia Mott
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Noah Webster
- James W.C. Pennington
- Lewis Tappan
- Lydia Maria Child
- John Brown
- Abbey Kelley
Biography Research Card
1. Name of Abolitionist ________________________
2. Date of Birth__________________ Date of Death____________________
(you may not be able to find the exact dates)
- Relationship to the institution of slavery – slave? Runaway? Bought freedom? Free?
- Timeline of his/her life
- Ways this individual fought against slavery (use dates and events)
- Best quote of individual including its context and its meaning:
- Relationship of your person to:
- Legality of slavery
- Psychological effects,
- Economics and
- Violence of slavery.
9. Sources used in proper bibliographic form:
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