The materials below can be used to explain and demonstrate how students can research and write histories of individual freedom seekers, enabling instructors to make the research and writing of freedom seeker into a class assignment. The MS Word and PowerPoint documents can be edited by instructors.
The documents include:
Two PowerPoints with case studies illustrating the research process
A document detailing where to locate freedom seeker newspaper advertisements
A bibliography of resources related to freedom seekers and the regions from which they escaped
A bibliography of online resources for historical maps
A downloadable Word version of our guide to language use when writing about slavery
This assignment can be adapted for upper-level undergraduates and for graduate students. If instructors think any of the final essays are good enough they can be submitted for possible publication on this website.