Winter 2015 – Just Teach One: Early African American Print no. 1
Edited and introduced by Eric Gardner and Nicole Aljoe
TEI-encoded by Sarah Stanley

Toussaint l’Ouverture, lithograph, United States, between 1830 and 1860

“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

Carte générale de l’ile de St. Domingue, Ambroise Tardieu, Intaglio, Paris, 1802

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
  • The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave life in the Americas: A Visual Record
•  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 19^th 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 19^th Century Black Writing
  • Digital Schomburg African American Women Writers of the 19^th Century
• Representations of Black Women in 19^th century
  • Digital Schomburg Images of African American from the 19^th 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)