{"id":68,"date":"2017-10-12T11:28:48","date_gmt":"2017-10-12T11:28:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-311pinsker\/?page_id=68"},"modified":"2019-02-20T17:11:08","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T17:11:08","slug":"slave-narratives-maps","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-311pinsker\/slave-narratives-maps\/","title":{"rendered":"Slave Narratives Maps"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Due by Monday, February 25, 2019 (5pm) [UPDATED]<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>By Monday, February 25, students will be required to post a custom-made <a href=\"https:\/\/support.google.com\/maps\/answer\/3045850\">Google Map<\/a>\u00a0or a <a href=\"https:\/\/storymap.knightlab.com\/\">StorymapJS<\/a>, which they\u2019ve designed to help illustrate the story of a published, first-person American slave narrative.\u00a0 Each map should be embedded within a short blog post (about 800-1,000 words, or 4-5 pages) at the course website that describes the autobiography of the enslaved subject within the context of American slavery or antislavery, using citations to Peter Kolchin&#8217;s <em>American Slavery\u00a0<\/em>(2003 ed.) as a key starting point for scholarly insights.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Guidelines<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The maps themselves should contain about 8-10 place marks with each one including brief excerpted text from the published narrative (properly cited) along with supporting images or video clips (properly credited).\u00a0 The place marks should be positioned in correct geographical position and should be arranged in chronological order on the left-hand navigation column.<\/li>\n<li>Primary source material for this project should come from\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/\">North American Slave Narratives<\/a>\u00a0at the Documenting the American South website.<\/li>\n<li>Late maps will be penalized up to 5 points per day.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Blogging Tips<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-311pinsker\/files\/2017\/10\/Handout-Blog-Posting.pdf\">Handout &#8211;Blog Posting<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Use Chicago-style footnote citations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Google Map Instructions<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"list-style-type: none;\">\n<ul>\n<li><a style=\"font-size: 1rem;\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-311pinsker\/files\/2017\/10\/Handout-Creating-Google-Maps.pdf\">Handout &#8211;Creating Google Maps<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Sbik5402oxs\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>StorymapJS Instructions<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rSw3ZO8gDgc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Suggested Placemark Format<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>LOCATION:\u00a0 Christiana, PA, site of 1851 resistance \/\/ IMAGE: \u00a0Effects of the Fugitive Slave Law (lithograph, Library of Congress) \/\/ TEXT: &#8220;Appearing less than a month after passage of the Fugitive Slave Act [in September 1850], the print [above] shows four well-dressed black men shot down in a cornfield. \u00a0Texts from the Bible and the Declaration of Independence adorn the bottom of the print. \u00a0The effects of the Fugitive Slave Act, suggests the image, will be the routine murder of black men, whether slave or free, in violation of all humanity.&#8221; \u00a0(Louis Masur, Civil War (2010), p. 14) \/\/\u00a0 DOCUMENT&#8211; Fugitive Slave Act of 1850:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/19th_century\/fugitive.asp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/avalon.law.yale.edu\/19th_century\/fugitive.asp<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sample Posts<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-311pinsker\/2017\/11\/06\/josiah-henson\/\">Josiah Henson<\/a> (Fall 2017)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-311pinsker\/2017\/11\/04\/harriet-jacobs-agency-of-a-slave-woman\/\">Harriet Jacobs<\/a> (Fall 2017)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-311pinsker\/2017\/11\/04\/william-parker-runaway-slave-and-abolitionist\/\">William Parker<\/a> (Fall 2017)<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/2016\/11\/13\/slave-narrative-2\/\">Mary Prince<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/2015\/11\/01\/susie-king-taylor\/\">Susie King Taylor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-117pinsker\/2016\/11\/13\/themes-of-republicanism-in-booker-t-washingtons-up-from-slavery\/\">Booker T. Washington<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-311pinsker\/2017\/11\/05\/the-narrative-of-james-williams\/\">James Williams<\/a> (Fall 2017)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Featured Narratives<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The two most famous published ex-slave narratives were produced by Frederick Douglas and Booker T. Washington. \u00a0Students can choose to write about Douglass\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/douglass\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Narrative<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(1845) (or one of his two other subsequent autobiographies,\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/douglass55\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">My Bondage and My Freedom<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>from\u00a01855 or\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/dougl92\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Life and Times<\/a><\/em>\u00a0from 1892) or Washington\u2019s\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/washington\/menu.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Up From Slavery<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>(1901), but here are about two dozen more choices from among the\u00a0significant (and teachable) ex-slave narratives that have been published in American history, available full-text online from \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">North American Slave Narratives<\/a>,\u201d in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Documenting the American South<\/a>.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Ball, Charles.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/ball\/menu.html\">Fifty Years in Chains, or, The Life of an American Slave<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>New York: H. Dayton; Indianapolis, Ind.: Asher &amp; Co., 1859. 430 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Bibb, Henry.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/bibb\/menu.html\">Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Henry Bibb, an American Slave, Written by Himself<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>New York: Author, 1849. 207 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Brown, Henry Box.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/brownbox\/menu.html\">Narrative of the Life of Henry Box Brown, Written by Himself<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Manchester: Printed by Lee and Glynn, 1851. 69 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Brown, William Wells.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/brown47\/menu.html\">Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave. Written by Himself<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Boston: The Anti-slavery office, 1847. xi, [13]-110 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Jacobs, Harriet A. (Harriet Ann),\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"bold\">edited by Lydia Maria Francis Child.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/jacobs\/menu.html\">Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl. Written by Herself<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Boston: Published for the Author, 1861, c1860. 306 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Craft, William.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/craft\/menu.html\">Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom; or, the Escape of William and Ellen Craft from Slavery<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>London: William Tweedie, 1860. iv, 111 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Drew, Benjamin. \u00a0<em>[NOTE: \u00a0Account of many ex-slaves compiled by an abolitionist.\u00a0<\/em><\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/drew\/menu.html\">A North-Side View of Slavery. The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada. Related by Themselves, with an Account of the History and Condition of the Colored Population of Upper Canada<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Boston: J. P. Jewett and Company, 1856. xii, 387 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Truth, Sojourner. \u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/truth50\/menu.html\">Narrative of Sojourner Truth, a Northern Slave, Emancipated from Bodily Servitude by the State of New York, in 1828<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Boston: The Author, 1850. xii, 13-144 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Grandy, Moses.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/grandy\/menu.html\">Narrative of the Life of Moses Grandy, Late a Slave in the United States of America<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>London: Gilpin, 1843. 72 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Grimes, William.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/grimes55\/menu.html\">Life of William Grimes, the Runaway Slave, Brought Down to the Present Time.<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>New Haven: Published by the Author, 1855. 93 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Henson, Josiah.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/henson49\/menu.html\">The Life of Josiah Henson, Formerly a Slave, Now an Inhabitant of Canada, as Narrated by Himself<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Boston: A. D. Phelps, 1849. iv, 76 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Said, Omar ibn, b. 1770?\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"bold\">edited by J. Franklin Jameson.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/nc\/omarsaid\/menu.html\">Autobiography of Omar ibn Said, Slave in North Carolina, 1831. Ed. John Franklin Jameson. From The American Historical Review, 30, No. 4. (July 1925), 787-795<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Washington, D. C.: American Historical Association, 1925. 787-795 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Jennings, Paul.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/jennings\/menu.html\">A Colored Man\u2019s Reminiscences of James Madison<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Brooklyn: G.C. Beadle, 1865. 19 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Keckley, Elizabeth.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/keckley\/menu.html\">Behind the Scenes, or, Thirty years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>New York: G. W. Carleton &amp; Co., Publishers, 1868. 371 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Loguen, J. W. (Jermain Wesley).\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/loguen\/menu.html\">The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Syracuse, N. Y.: J. G. K. Truair &amp; Co., 1859. 445 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Parker, William.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/parker1\/menu.html\">The Freedman\u2019s Story: In Two Parts<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>The Atlantic Monthly, vol. XVII, Feb. 1866, pp. 152-166; Mar. 1866, pp. 276-295., 26 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Pennington, James W. C.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/penning49\/menu.html\">The Fugitive Blacksmith; or, Events in the History of James W. C. Pennington, Pastor of a Presbyterian Church, New York, Formerly a Slave in the State of Maryland, United States<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>London: Charles Gilpin, 1849. xv, [1], 1-87, [9] p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Prince, Mary.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/prince\/menu.html\">The History of Mary Prince, a West Indian Slave. Related by Herself. With a Supplement by the Editor. To Which Is Added, the Narrative of Asa-Asa, a Captured African<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>London: Published by F. Westley and A. H. Davis, 1831. 41 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Roper, Moses.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/roper\/menu.html\">A Narrative of the Adventures and Escape of Moses Roper, from American Slavery<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Philadelphia: Merrihew &amp; Gunn, 1838. 89 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Smallwood, Thomas.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/smallwood\/menu.html\">A Narrative of Thomas Smallwood, (Coloured Man:) Giving an Account of His Birth\u2013The Period He Was Held in Slavery\u2013His Release\u2013and Removal to Canada, etc. Together With an Account of the Underground Railroad. Written by Himself<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Toronto: Smallwood; James Stephens, 1851. xii, 13-63 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Taylor, Susie King.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/taylorsu\/menu.html\">Reminiscences of My Life in Camp with the 33d United States Colored Troops Late 1st S. C. Volunteers<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>Boston: The author, 1902. 92p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Ward, Samuel Ringgold.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/neh\/wards\/menu.html\">Autobiography of a Fugitive Negro: His Anti-Slavery Labours in the United States, Canada, &amp; England<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>London: John Snow, 35, Paternoster Row, 1855. 412 p.<\/li>\n<li><span class=\"bold\">Williams, James.\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"italic\"><a href=\"http:\/\/docsouth.unc.edu\/fpn\/williams\/menu.html\">Narrative of James Williams, an American Slave, Who Was for Several Years a Driver on a Cotton Plantation in Alabama<\/a>\u00a0<\/span>New York: American Anti-Slavery Society; Boston: Isaac Knapp, 1838. 108p.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Due by Monday, February 25, 2019 (5pm) [UPDATED] By Monday, February 25, students will be required to post a custom-made Google Map\u00a0or a StorymapJS, which they\u2019ve designed to help illustrate the story of a published, first-person American slave narrative.\u00a0 Each &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-311pinsker\/slave-narratives-maps\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":373,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-68","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-311pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-311pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-311pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-311pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/373"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-311pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-311pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/68\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.dickinson.edu\/hist-311pinsker\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}