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The Escape of the Pearl: teaching about slavery with primary source documents.

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From: Social Education
Date: 20030901
Author:Fishman, Susan Hoffman

As an education consultant to the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, Connecticut, I was conducting research during the summer of 2000 in preparation for a Teacher Institute to be held the following July. The one-week institute, entitled "'This Question of Slavery': perspectives from primary Sources,"was to take place at the nineteenth century home where Stowe lived from 1873 until her death in 1896. The institute was intended to expose middle and high school teachers to primary source documents on slavery and innovative strategies for using the documents in American history ...

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