CURRICULUM RESOURCES
Bibliography
State/National:
Aptheker, Herbert. A Documentary History of the
Negro People in the United States. New York:
Citadel Press, (1969).
______One Continual Cry: David
Walker's Appeal, 1829 to 1839. New York: Humanities
Press, (1965).
Brewer, William M. John Russwurm.
Journal of Negro History, Vol. XIII, (1928).
Chickering, Jesse. A Statistical
View of the Population of Massachusetts from 1765
to 1840. Rare Book:
available in the Library of Congress (LOC). Microfilm
46702 HA.
Davis, Gerald Nelson. Massachusetts
Blacks and the Quest for Education: 1638 to 1860.
Unpublished: Dissertation thesis from University
of Massachusetts, (June 1977).
Douglass, Frederick. The Life
and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself.
(ed. by Genevieve S. Gary). New
York: Gosset and Dunlap, (1970).
______My Bondage and My Freedom.
New York: Dover Press, (1969).
Farr, Francine and Lee Rand Burns.
A Diary of the Visits of Frederick Douglass on
Nantucket Island in the Years 1841, 1842, 1843, 1850,
and 1885. Boston: The
Museum of Afro-American History and the Nantucket
Athenaeum, (1991).
Greene, Lorenzo. The Negro
in Colonial New England. Port Washington: Kennikat
Press, (1942).
Mason, Julian D. (ed.) The
poems of Phillis Wheatley. Chapel Hill: University
of North Carolina Press,
(1989).
Moore, George. Notes on the
History of Slavery in Massachusetts. New York:
D. Appleton, (1866). Rare
Book.
Nell, William Cooper. The Colored
Patriots of the American Revolution. (reprint
of 1855 edition). New York: Arno Press, (1968).
US Bureau of the Census. A
Century of Population Growth in the United States:
1790 to 1900. Washington, DC: Census Bureau, (1909),
pp.158-161.
Boston:
Boston Primary School Committee.
Report to the Primary School Committee, June 15,
1846, on the petition of sundry colored persons, for
the abolition of the schools for colored children.
With the city solicitor's opinion. Boston: J.H.
Eastburn, city printer, (1846).
______Report of a Special committee
of the Grammar school board, presented August 29,
1849, on the petition of sundry colored persons, praying
for the abolition of the Smith school; with an appendix.
Boston: J.H. Eastburn, (1849).
______Report of the minority
of the Committee upon the petitions of John T. Hilton
and others, colored citizens of Boston, praying for
the abolition of the Smith School, and that colored
children may be permitted to attend the other schools
of the city. Submitted by Charles Theo. Russell, at
a meeting of the School Committee of Boston, holden
August 29th, 1849. Printed by order of
the School Committee. Boston: E.J. Eastburn, (1849).
Brown, Lois (ed.) Memoir of
James Jackson: The Attentive and Obedient Scholar,
Who Died in Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged Six Years
and Eleven Months, By his Teacher, Miss Susan Paul.
Harvard University Press: Cambridge, (2000).
Colored Citizens of Boston. Triumph
of equal school rights in Boston : proceedings of
the presentation meeting held in Boston, Dec. 17,
1855 : including addresses by John T. Hilton, Wm.
C. Nell, Charles W. Slack, Wendell Phillips, Wm. Lloyd
Garrison, Charles Lennox Remond. Boston
: R.F. Wallcut, (1856).
Daniels, John. In Freedom's
Birthplace. New York: Arno Press, (1969).
Dargo, George. "The Sarah Roberts
Case in Historical Perspective," The Long Road
to Justice. Justice George Lewis Ruffin Society:
Boston (2000).
Hayden, Robert. The African
Meeting House in Boston: A Celebration of History.
Boston:Museum of Afro-American History, (1987).
Handlin, Oscar. Boston's Immigrants:
A Study in Acculturation. Cambridge: Belknap Press,
(1979).
Levy, Leonard W. and Douglas Lee
Jones (eds.). Jim Crow in Boston; the origin of
the separate but
equal doctrine. New York: Da Capo Press,
(1974).
Sumner, Charles. Argument of
Charles Sumner against the constitutionality of separate
schools, in the case of Sarah C. Roberts vs. the city
of Boston, before the Supreme Court of Massachusetts,
December 4, 1849. Boston: Benjamin Roberts (pub.
1850).
Schultz, Stanley K. The Culture
Factory: Boston Public Schools, 1789-1860. New
York: Oxford University Press, (1973).
Nantucket:
Byers, Edward. The Nation of
Nantucket: Society and Politics in an Early American
Commercial Center1600-1820.
Boston: Northeastern University Press, (1987).
Foster, Stephen S. An Original
Stereotyped Edition of The Brotherhood of Thieves;
or a True Picture of the American Church and Clergy
(A Letter to Nathaniel Barney of Nantucket).
Boston: Anti-Slavery Office (1844).
Rare Book available at the Massachusetts Historical
Society (MHS) or the Nantucket Historical Association
(NHA).
Johnson, Robert (ed.). African-Americans
and Cape Verdeans on Nantucket: An Anthology on Race,
Politics, and Community. Unpublished: Compilation
of Ames Papers. Date of Publication: TBA.
Kaldenbach-Montemayor, Isabel.
Absalom Boston and the Development of Nantucket's
African-American Community. Unpublished: Ames
Paper.
Leach, Robert and Peter Gow. Quaker
Nantucket: The Religious Community Behind the Whaling
Community. Nantucket: Mill Hill Press, (1997).
Pierce, Cyrus. An Address to
the Inhabitants of Nantucket on Education and Free
Schools. Providence: Knowles, Vose & Co. (1838).
Rare book located in the Massachusetts Historical
Society.
Saillant, John. Before Douglass:
Racism and Nationalism in Nantucket's Newspapers in
the Early Republic. Unpublished: Ames Paper.
White, Barbara Linebaugh. The
African School and the Integration of Nantucket Public
Schools: 1825-1847. African American Studies Center:
Boston University (1978, 1997).
Juvenile
Literature
[age appropriate supplemental literature for
students K - 12]
Blacks
in American History; Volume 1, Through 1877.
Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Globe Book Co., (1989) [Grades
7 -12].
Frederick
Douglass: Fighter for Freedom. Peterborough, NH:
Cobblestone, (1989).
Bond,
Carol Taylor. A Book of famous Black Americans:
Complete units for teachers of children ages 4 -8.
Mt. Rainer, MD: Gryphon House, (1989). [Grades
K - 3].
Bullard,
Pamela and Judith Stoia. The Hardest Lesson: Personal
accounts of a school desegregation crisis. Boston:
Little, Brown, (1980). [account of 1970s - for
comparison to 1840s].
Halliburton,
Warren J. Historic Speeches of African Americans.
New York: F. Watts, (1993).
Jensen,
Marilyn. Phillis Wheatley: Negro Slave of Mr. John
Wheatley of Boston. Scarsdale, NY: Lion Books, (1987).
Johnston,
Johanna. Harriet and the Runaway Book: The Story
of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin.
New York: Harper & Row, (1977).
Lyons,
Mary E. Letters from a Slave Girl: The Story of
Harriet Jacobs. New York: Scribner, (1992). [FICTION]
McCurdy,
Michael (ed.) Escape From Slavery: The Boyhood of
Frederick Douglass in His Own Words. New York: Knopf,
(1994). [Revised, edited (shortened), and illustrated
version of Frederick Douglass' 1845 narrative].
Meltzer,
Milton. All Times, All Peoples: A World History
of Slavery. New York: Harper & Row, (1980).
Myers,
Walter Dean. Now is Your Time! The African-American
Struggle for Freedom. New York: HarperCollins, (1991).
Palmer,
Colin A. The First Passage: Blacks in the Americas,
1520 - 1617. New York: Oxford University Press,
(1995). [helpful when linking Massachusetts
to the Caribbean].
Pederson,
Jay P. and Kenneth Edtell (eds.). African American
Almanac {Vol. 1- History; Vol. 2 - Society; Vol.
3 - Culture}. Detroit: U X L, (1994).
Richmond,
Merle A. Phillis Wheatley. New York: Chelsea House
Publishers, (1987).
Curriculum Materials
Amistad America, Inc., Learn
2000, Connecticut Historical Society, Voices
of Freedom: Amistad Curriculum. ,Guide contains
valuable lessons K-12. Sailing school vessel and
school programs on Amistad, maritime history through
Mystic Seaport, PO Box 6000, Mystic, CT 06355. Tel
860-536-6003. Whaling vessel Charles Morgan also
available for school programs.
Discovery Enterprise, Ltd. Carlisle,
MA 01741: plays about Phillis Wheatley, Frederick
Douglass, and nderground Railroad; Perspectives
on History Series, primary sources on Underground
Railroad.
Five College Public School Partnership,
97 Spring St., Amherst, MA 01002. Witness to
Freedom Project. October 1999. Primary Sources
on Abolition, guide for teachers.
Jackdaw No A30.on Slavery
in the United States. Jackdaw Publications,
PO Box 503, Amawalk, NY 10501. Includes primary
sources, reproducible masters and teaching guide,
originally 1975, reprint 2000.
Kendall Whaling Museum, Sharon
MA 02067. Exhibits, research library, school programs,
including blacks and whaling. Two educational guides
by Mary Malloy, African Americans in the Maritime
Trades: A Guide to Resources in New England
(1990); and From Boston We Set Sail, African
Americans in the Maritime Trades (1993),
Reproductions of images, documents in handsome collection
of portraits of ships, sailors, letters, songs,
connected with African Americans, with teacher notes.
Museum of Afro American History:
Sourcebook on the African Meeting House by Margaret
Drew (out of print ñavailable at libraries)
Information on Meeting House as center for religious,
educational and political activities; transcriptions
of primary sources, biographical sketches included.
National Council for the Social
Studies, Washington, DC 20016 in conjunction with
WGBH series, produced a special section in Social
Education, "Africans in America: Re-Exploring
Early American History",
which contains articles by noted historians and
exemplary teachers, including teaching
ideas and sample lesson plan using primary sources.
Primary Source, Watertown, MA
02172; This non-profit center for multicultural
and global education offers professional development
and curriculum development resources to teachers
and school communities. They have produced Making
Freedom: five history sourcebooks on Teacher
Institute projects and papers on African American
history, including Massachusetts topics.
The Justice George Louis Ruffin
Society, Long Road to Justice: The African American
Experience in the Massachusetts Courts. Developed
by Primary Source, 2000. This Teachers Guide is
a companion to the traveling exhibit, Long Road
to Justice, which contains copies of the primary
sources in the exhibit, with background readings,
pre and post-visit activities and Bibliography.
Tradition
and Reform: Four Centuries of Education in Massachusetts.
(1993) by Barbara D. Robinson. An interdisciplinary
guide for educators, this resource will provide
teachers and students with a broad understanding
of the progression of education in Massachusetts,
from its inception to more current developments.
Available through the Commonwealth Museum, 220 Morrissey
Blvd. Boston, MA 02125.
WGBH series on Africans in
America produced for public television in 1999:
The Africans in America
Teacher Guide is available from WGBH at Educational
Print and Outreach, Boston, MA 02134. Excellent
web site at http://www.pbs.org/africansinamerica
Also contact Educational Print
and Outreach for WGBH Video on Nantucket School
story, "Rock of Changes":
Guy Peartree, Stories are
Tellin, Jamaica Plain, Boston, MA 02130. 617-522-0032
"Frederick Douglass,
1817-1895". William Craft 1827-1890s. Presentations
at schools and Old Sturbridge Village.
Merrill Kohlhofer, 44 Beaver
St., Salem, MA 019970, 978-745-6505; kohlhof@banet.net
"North to Freedom: The
Story of Levi Coffin" (Underground railroad,
slavery). School and library visits.
Davis,
Ossie. Escape to Freedom: A Play about young Frederick
Douglass. New York: Viking Press, (1978).
Kamerman,
Sylvia E. (ed.) Plays of Black Americans: Episodes
from the Black experience in America, dramatized
for young people. Boston: Plays, Inc., (1987).
