Bibliography
Ammons, Elizabeth, and Susan Belasco. Approaches to Teaching Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2000. Extremely useful work in detailing how to present Uncle Tom’s Cabin to students
Appleby, Joyce Oldham., Alan Brinkley, Albert S. Broussard, James M. McPherson, and Donald A. Ritchie. Discovering Our Past: A History of the United States Early Years. New York, NY: McGraw-Hill, 2014. Class Textbook for my U.S. History instruction
Brady, Charles, and Philip Roden. Mini-Q's in American History. Chicago, IL: DBQ Project, 2013. I have used this exceptional strategy for writing and literacy instruction among struggling writers and readers.
Davis, Charles T., and Henry Louis Gates. The Slave's Narrative. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1985. I found this to be a critical component of my Curriculum Unit and its examination of the impact of the slave narrative in the Abolition Movement.
Douglass, Frederick. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (Wisehouse Classics Edition. Wisehouse. Kindle Edition. Premier slave-narrative and model for Abolition Movement autobiography. His belief in the critical nature of education and civil rights shines through.
Douglass, Frederick, William Lloyd Garrison, and Wendell Phillips. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave. Dublin: Webb and Chapman, St. Brunswick Street, 1846.
Hall, James C. Approaches to Teaching Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1999. Very useful link to critical information regarding how the slave-narrative was utilized by Abolition Movement leaders. It also includes important aspects of the growth of Frederick Douglass from his beginning in the Abolition Movement to one of its most beloved and controversial leaders.
Hochman, Barbara. Uncle Tom's Cabin and the Reading Revolution: Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 2011. I primarily focused on the years leading up to and during the first publication of Uncle Tom’s Cabin. This work gave significant insight into how the importance and impact of Uncle Tom’s Cabin tempered after the Civil War.
Kane, Katherine. “Lincoln and The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin.” Connecticut Explored, Winter 2012/2013. URL:http://connecticutexplored.org/wordpress/wpcontent/uploads/2013/01 LINCOLN-UNCLE-TOMS-CABIN-CTE-W12.pdf. This work really helped me link Harriet Beecher Stowe’s determination to defend Uncle Tom’s Cabin as a primary source with The Key to Uncle Tom’s Cabin ‘s importance as a stand-alone work of literature.
Keith D. Miller and Kocher, Ruth Ellen. “Shattering Kidnapper’s Heavenly Union: Interargumentation in Douglass’s Oratory.” Approaches to Teaching Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. Ed. James C. Hall. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 1999. Excellent breakdown of the influence of Douglass’s Narrative on Douglass himself, thus using his written words to enhance his oratory or spoken words.
Olney, James. “I Was Born”: Slave Narratives, Their Status as Autobiography and as Literature. The Slave's Narrative. Ed. Davis, Charles T., and Henry Louis Gates. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1985. Pages. 148-158.
Moers, Ellen. Harriet Beecher Stowe and American Literature. Hartford, CT: Stowe-Day Foundation, 1978. Relatively weak in most areas except for being very strong in its viewpoint on women’s literature during the antebellum era in America.
Parks, Sandra, and Howard Black. Organizing Thinking: Graphic Organizers. Seaside, CA: Critical Thinking, 1992. Useful workbook on the use of graphic organizers in social studies and humanities classrooms.
Railton, Stephen. “Black Slaves and White Readers” Approaches to Teaching Stowe’s Uncle Tom’s Cabin. Ed. Ammon, Elizabeth and Susan Belasco. New York: Modern Language Association of America, 2000. Very readable deconstruction of why and how Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’s Cabin in the way she did in order to reach white readers with her religious message and abolitionist protest against slavery.
Schubert, Nicole. “The Role of Rhetoric in the Abolition Movement: A Study of Voice and Power in Narrative, Speech, and Letters. American Voices: Listening to Fiction, Poetry, and Prose.” Yale National Initiative 2003, Volume II. A wonderful example of a curriculum unit which helped guide me through the process. It was a plus that she focused on Frederick Douglass, and uses The DBQ Project as part of her teaching strategies.
Slavery and The Making of America. Episode 3: "Seeds of Destruction" Written and by Chana Gazit, Public Broadcasting System. 2004. Useful documentary on slavery.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin: Presenting the Original Facts Documents upon Which the Story Is Founded, Together with Corroborative Statements Verifying the Truth of the Work. Bedford, MA: Applewood Books, 1998. Key is a warehouse of background and source material Stowe uses in defense of her literary stance on slavery. The work also provides her authentic struggle with the weakness and strength of faith in her drive against the evils of slavery.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher. Uncle Tom's Cabin. Kindle Edition. Easily readable text and extremely useful for notation and citation purposes.
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