Hi Marybeth and all…

Please don’t forget about all the digitized historic Connecticut newspapers we make available to you through the State Library’s Digital Collections page, the Connecticut Digital Newspaper Project and through researchIT CT.

The direct link to our Newspapers of Connecticut collection (which is mainly Civil War era) is: http://cslib.cdmhost.com/digital/collection/p15019coll9

You can search by Title, Town or Topic.  On the topic list you will see Anti-Slavery and Slavery.

The Anti-Slavery newspapers include:

The Charter Oak

Free Soil Advocate

Free Soil Pioneer

North & South

Slave’s Cry

Ultimatum

Slavery papers include:

Charter Oak

Free Soil Pioneer

Connecticut Humanities also has a great project called Teach IT which we have added content to.  I did a search on Slavery and came up with a number of inquiry-based activities using CT primary sources you may like: http://teachitct.org/?s=slavery .

Best,

Gail

Gail Hurley | Library Development Consultant, Division of Library Development | Gail.Hurley@ct.gov | Office: (860) 704-2222
http://libguides.ctstatelibrary.org/dld | 786 South Main Street, Middletown, CT 06457 | Fax: (860) 704-2228

From: CASL-L [mailto:casl-l-bounces@mylist.net] On Behalf Of Marybeth Murdoch
Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2018 10:52 AM
To: CASL-l@mylist.net
Subject: [CASL-L] primary source documents

Hello to the collective wisdom of CASL,

A teacher/student teacher asked me to help research primary documents relevant to Antebellem America.  “Students will seek and cite quotes from slave narratives, pro-slavery, and abolitionist perspectives.”

I am directing her to the History Reference database on researchitct.org

We also have some print resources.

I have started to find relevant websites, but I don’t want to miss anything.

If anyone has done similar research projects with middle school and is willing to share some online tools, I would be happy to share what I have as well!

Thank you,

Marybeth

Marybeth Murdoch

Library Media Specialist

Captain Nathan Hale Middle School

Coventry, CT  06238

(860)742-7346 x4264

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