Recommended Children's and Pedagogy Literature: Slavery

03/08/11 • -1 min

I recommend the below books for use when teaching about slavery in the United States between 1700 and 1900 to students in intermediate-level grades. In some cases, I also include Google Lit Trips developed by teachers in the Teaching American History Grant program.

Most Loved in All the World by Tonya Cherie Hegamin
Under the Quilt of Night by Deborah Hopkinson
Follow the Drinking Gourd by Jeanette Winter
A Voice of Her Own: A Story of Phyllis Wheatly, Slave Poet by Katherine Lasky
Alec's Primer by Mildred Pitts Walter
Daily Life on a Southern Plantation by Paul Erickson
Discovery Kids: Underground Railroad
Elijah of Buxton by Christopher Paul Curtis
Henry’s Freedom Box: A True Story from the Underground Railroad by Ellen Levine
If You Lived When There Was Slavery in America by Anna Kamma [Lit Trip by Laura Conway, Cathleen Mullen, and Rachel Robertson]
If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad Ellen Levine
Meet Addie: American Girl (Book One) by Connie Porter
Night Boat to Freedom by Margot Thiels Raven [Lit Trip by Jill Hardin]
Patchwork Path: A Quilt Map to Freedom by Bettye Stroud
Priscilla and the Hollyhocks by Ann Broyles [Lit Trip by Jessica Graham]
Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt by Deborah Hopkinson [See this Lit Trip by Megan Leider and a companion lesson plan by Cynthia Weeden]
Time For Kids Biographies: Harriet Tubman A Woman of Courage by the Editors of Time for Kids with Renee Skelton

03/08/11 • -1 min

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