Understanding and teaching American slavery

Foreword: The short course for bringing slavery into the classroom in ten not-so-easy pieces / Ira Berlin

Introduction / Bethany Jay and Cynthia Lynn Lyerly

Part 1. Slavery and the classroom. Methods for teaching slavery to high school students and college undergraduates in the United States / James W. Loewen ; Dealing with things as they are : creating a classroom environment for teaching slavery and its lingering impact / Steven Thurston Oliver

Part 2. Teaching specific content. Teaching the origins of slavery in the Americas / Eric Kimball ; Slavery in the new nation : human bondage in the land of liberty / Paul Finkelman ; Blood stained mirrors : decoding the American slave-trading past / Sowande' Mustakeem ; Slavery and the northern economy / Christy Clark-Pujara ; Northern slavery and its legacies : still a new (and unwelcome?) story / Joanne Pope Melish ; Slave resistance / Kenneth S. Greenberg ; Slave culture / Bernard E. Powers Jr. ; The diverse experiences of the enslaved / Deirdre Cooper Owens ; Slavery and the Civil War / Bethany Jay ; Comparative slavery / Laird W. Bergad ; The challenge of slavery since emancipation : from 1865 to the twenty-first century / James Brewer Stewart

Part 3. Sources and strategies for teaching slavery. Using the WPA slave narratives in the classroom / Cynthia Lynn Lyerly ; Teaching the history of slavery through film / Ron Briley ; Art and slavery / Ray Williams ; In the footsteps of others : understanding slavery through process drama / Lindsay Anne Randall ; "A likely negro" : using runaway-slave advertisements to teach slavery / Antonio T. Bly ; Teaching the history of slavery and its legacy through historical archaeology : Project Archaeology / Sarah E. Miller, James M. Davidson, and Emily Palmer.