Curated OER
Taking Up Arms and the Challenge of Slavery in the Revolutionary Era
Students examine a series of documents which discuss the contradiction in the Americans' rhetoric about slavery. They act as members of designated Committees of Correspondence in the five different colonies, communicating their...
PBS
Africans in America: Interior of a Slave Ship
This site describes how slaves were packed in the ships with barely enough room to sit or move, to maximize capacity.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Us History: 1844 1877: The Slave Economy
The South relied on slavery heavily for economic prosperity and used wealth as a way to justify enslavement practices.