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Frederick Douglass: a light in darkness.(Biography)

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From: Black History Bulletin
Date: 20060622
Author:Bailey, Tyshawn; Yarbrough, Calil

"I have found that, to make a contented slave, it is necessary to make a thoughtless one." (1)

Frederick Douglass, 1845

Back in high school, we complained to our teachers about the lack of African American history in American history curriculum. We were not motivated by our history teachers--and now as adults and preservice teachers, we realize that as teenage students we were not empowered to discover beyond what was explicitly taught in class. We have designed the following lesson plan, inspired by and focusing on Frederick Douglass's classic 1845 "slave narrative," ...

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