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Module 10 - Part
4: Web Resources
Other parts of this module include:
Index | Part
1: Overview | Part
2: Explorations and Exercises | Part
3: Texts and Contexts
Labor, Free and Unfree, in the 18th and 19th Centuries
The Life of Frederick Douglass
A summary of the life of Frederick Douglass, from the
government Web site dedicated to the Frederick Douglass
National Historic Site in Washington D.C. , with good links
to related materials.
– Link 1
The Web site maintained by the Frederick Douglass Museum
and Cultural Center in Rochester, New York, with links
to a Photo Gallery and other related materials.
– Link 2
A timeline of key events in Douglass's life, with a series
of photographs, from the Library of Congress Web site.
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Three speeches given by Douglass, including "What the
Black Man Wants" (1865).
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A photograph and brief history of Anna Murray, Douglass's
first wife.
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A charming comic strip that shows how Douglass escaped.
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Douglass's own account of his escape, written forty years
after the event.
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The Slave Narrative
Three Africans in eighteenth-century England
The Olaudah Equiano Web site. Like the next two sites,
this has been assembled by Brycchan Carey, a lecturer in
eighteenth-century literature at Kingston University in
the United Kingdom .
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The Ignatius Sancho Web site.
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The Ottabah Cugoano Web site.
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10
An article on the slave narrative in the excellent University
of North Carolina site, "Documenting the American South," by
William L. Andrews.
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Bibliography for the study of The Interesting Narrative
of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the
African, Written by Himself (1789), prepared for
an American literature course site at California State
University, Stanislaus, by Paul P. Reuben.
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On Harriet Jacobs
The text of Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl and
related information about Harriet Jacobs, from the University
of Virginia .
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From Public Broadcasting's Web site on Africans in America
, a short summary of Jacobs's experience, with a good explanation
of her early years.
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A fuller biography of Jacobs by William L. Andrews, from
the UNC site noted above.
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A theoretically sophisticated twenty-five-page essay, "Obscene
Publics," by Bruce Burgett, that looks at the meaning of
pornography and obscenity in the context of Incidents
in the Life of a Slave Girl and Jacobs's appropriation
of the conventions of the sentimental novel.
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Historical Documentation of Unfree Labor
From Portland State University , a site for Middle Schools
that provides basic information about the ancient forms
of unfree labor, with links defining terms.
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From The Christian Science Monitor , an exercise
for children: occupational names as surnames.
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From a course site of Professor Lawrence Lipking's at
Northwestern University , an informative discussion of "Slavery
and the Slave Trade in Britain ."
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An excellent set of images illustrating the evolution
of slavery in the United States , created by students at
the University of California at Santa Cruz .
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Home page of the superb PBS Web site, Africans in
America .
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The European Scene
William Blake's chimney sweepers
"Some Notes on the Sweep," linked to Blake's Chimney
Sweeper from Songs of Innocence.
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From the Tate Online, Blake's Chimney Sweeper from Songs
of Experience , with commentary.
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A sentimental and occasionally sensationalistic discussion
of child labor in the Victorian era, with comments about
the plight of juvenile chimney sweeps.
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An online encyclopedia article about child labor during
the Industrial Revolution in Britain , with reference to
the Climbing Boys Act, passed in the last third of the
nineteenth century, which finally prohibited children from
undertaking chimney sweeping.
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25
The civil service
A selection of cartoons and prints from an art exhibit
documenting satirical attitudes toward bureaucracy in nineteenth-century
Russia .
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Commentary from Radio Free Europe on the continuing relevance
of "Gogol's nineteenth-century satire of Russian serfdom
and bureaucracy."
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Russian serfs
From the Economics Department of George Mason University,
a discussion of "servile labor and official brutality" in
Czarist Russia, with a table from James Mavor, An Economic
History of Russia.
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From a PBS Web site created as background for a video
adaptation of Anna Karenina , a brief survey of
Tolstoy's life, with reference to his efforts to free the
serfs on his family property, Yasnaya Polyana, and his
religious conversion some years prior to his writing The
Death of Ivan Ilych .
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Mutinies at sea
A brief article on military impressment, focusing on the
practice of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars.
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From a British site devoted to maritime information, a
description of the mutinies of the Spithead and the Nore
that Melville mentions in Billy Budd , with an
extensive bibliography.
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An invaluable hypertext version of Billy Budd by David
Padilla of the University of Virginia .
– Link
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