Theresa: A Haytien Tale (1827)
Winter 2015 – Just Teach One: Early African American Print no. 1
Edited and introduced by Eric Gardner and Nicole Aljoe
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“Theresa; a Haytien Tale” (1827)
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1. Teaching Reflections
- Joycelyn Moody, English Graduate level course, UT-San Antonio
- Nicole N. Aljoe, English, Introduction to Literary Studies course, Northeastern University
- Michael Dean, History, Illinois Math and Science Academy
- Adam Kotlarczyk, English, Illinois Math and Science Academy
- Brigitte Fielder, Literature and Folklore Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
- Ed White, Tulane University
- Katy L. Chiles, University of Tennessee
- Cassander L. Smith, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa
- Julie Buckner Armstrong, University of South Florida St. Petersburg
- Britt Rusert, Afro-American Studies, UMass Amherst, Graduate-level seminar
- Michelle Carrigan, Ph.D., Indian River State College
2. Classroom activities, assignments & Student Reflections
- Moody grad students McGee and Roby lesson plan
- Dean—classroom activity
- Aljoe—copy of essay assignment and excerpts from student essays
- Smith—sample lesson plan
3. Links and Contextual information
- Images
- Links/Contexts
- Bibliography
- “An Account of the Wife of Toussaint Louverture”. The Christian Observer. No. 35. November 1804 (No. 11. Vol III) p. 675.
- Haiti & Haitian Revolution
- The Louverture project, a free Haitian history resource
- “Slave Resistance: A Revolution in Haiti”
- The Choices Program, Haitian Revolution, Brown University
- Early 19th Century Black Social Activism
- David Walkers Appeal
- The Colored Conventions Project, at http://ColoredConventions.org
- Early Black Periodicals
- Pbs.org/Freedom’s Journal
- Former Offices of Freedom’s Journal, Mapping the African American Past
- Excerpts from Freedom’s Journal at Accessible Archives
- Digital images of volumes 1 and 2 of Freedom’s Journal are available here
- Early 19th Century Black Writing
- Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19th Century
- Representations of Black Women in 19th century
- Digital Schomburg Images of African American from the 19th century
- Dido Belle
- Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman/“Venus Hottentot”
- “Josephine Dessaline, The Empress of Hayti” in Lewis Goldsmith, The female revolutionary Plutarch: containing biographical, historical and revolutionary sketches, characters and anecdotes (1806)
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