Week 10 — Readings & Resources

Your primary reading is Chapter 10 (in this module). Everything below is the optional, go-deeper layer — pick what helps, skip the rest.

How to use this page

This page has 11 items (5 readings and 6 videos). Allow 133–160 minutes for everything. Each group points back to the matching chapter section and class-session segment, so use the full menu when you want more, or take the quick path below.

Every video here has captions: turn them on with the CC button in the player. The chapter covers the same ideas in text. Two items describe the cruelty of slavery plainly, one of them in a reenacted scene; take them at your own pace.

Pick-one quick path (19–23 min total)

• Sojourner Truth: Sites in the Hudson Valley — Historical Selfie
• Declaration of Sentiments — National Park Service

① Revivals and the reforms they fed

Chapter 10, Section “Read the Second Great Awakening as history: revivals and camp meetings” · Session 1, Segment 1, “Revivals and camp meetings” · Remember: the course reads what believers said and did, and gives no verdict on any belief.

• Religion and the New Republic — Library of Congress — one section of a Library of Congress exhibit on religion in the early republic. Read the parts on the camp meeting, the emergence of the African American church, and benevolent societies: they explain how the Kentucky revivals of about 1800 produced the camp meeting, show an architect's plan of a camp meeting of 1809 with seats divided by race, and tie the tract and temperance societies to the revivals. The exhibit dates the AME Church's founding to 1815; the National Archives and the National Park Service date the denomination's formal founding to 1816, the year the course uses. The section on the Mormons runs past this week; skim it or skip it. The exhibit shows what revivals looked like and what preachers taught; it does not settle any question of belief, and neither does the course. (reading, 15–20 min)

② Abolitionists, with Black voices in the lead

Chapter 10, Section “Hear the abolitionists: immediate abolition and Black leadership” · Session 1, Segment 3, “Black voices led the way” · Remember: immediate abolition stayed a minority movement in the North, and Black abolitionists helped start it.

• The Liberator (first issue) — Massachusetts Historical Society — page images of the first issue of William Lloyd Garrison's antislavery weekly, printed in Boston in 1831 by Garrison and Isaac Knapp. Use the image viewer to look at the masthead and the front page, and read the society's short note on Garrison's opening editorial. It shows what a reader in 1831 held in their hands; it does not show how many Northerners agreed with it. (reading, 5–8 min)
• Maria Miller Stewart Tribute Film — Connecticut Women's Hall of Fame — a short film on Maria W. Stewart, a free Black woman born in Hartford who became a writer and speaker against slavery in Boston. Watch for the manuscript she carried to William Lloyd Garrison in 1831, the essays he printed, her four public addresses to audiences of men and women, and her opposition to sending free Black Americans to West Africa. Its claim that she was the first American-born woman to speak to such audiences is the film's, it uses the older word of its sources for Black Americans, and its closing minutes follow her later life, past this week. This builds on Week 9's work with Jacksonian democracy, which widened the vote for white men while others stayed shut out. (video, 8 min) (captions: automatic)
• David Walker's "Appeal to the Coloured Citizens of the World" — National Endowment for the Humanities — an actor reads short excerpts from Walker's Appeal of 1829 over images of the period. Listen for how Walker turns the Declaration of Independence's promise of equality against slavery, and compare his use of it with the pinned fragment from Week 5. The reading condenses and rewords some lines, including the passage it gives to Jefferson, so check the Appeal's own text before you quote any of it. (video, 4 min) (captions: creator)
• AMERICAN EXPERIENCE The Abolitionists, Part One, Chapter 1 — American Experience : PBS — the opening chapter of a documentary, with reenacted scenes, on three people who came to abolition by different roads: Angelina Grimké, raised among enslavers in Charleston; Frederick Douglass as an enslaved child in Maryland; and William Lloyd Garrison arriving in Boston. Watch for how faith pushed Grimké and Garrison toward the cause. One scene reenacts a whipping Douglass described in his own account. Its figures for the number of enslaved people and the value of the enslaved are the documentary's, not the course's. (video, 10 min) (captions: automatic)

③ A told life: Sojourner Truth and her narrative

Chapter 10, Section “Source a dictated narrative: Sojourner Truth and Olive Gilbert” · Session 2, Segment 4, “Teller and writer” · Remember: a dictated narrative has a teller and a writer, and you name both every time.

• Sojourner Truth — National Park Service — the park service's biography of Truth, from her birth as Isabella Baumfree in Ulster County, New York, to her death in Michigan. Read the paragraphs on New York's emancipation laws, her enslaver's broken promise, her leaving with her infant daughter, and her dictating her story to Olive Gilbert. Then compare its dates with the narrative's own: this page dates New York's final emancipation day to 1827 and her own freedom to 1826, while the narrative places the State's action in 1828. Its second note, on the speech of 1851 that survives in different versions written by others, is a sharp lesson in the same problem. Use it while completing the Week-10 module overview. (reading, 10–15 min)
• Sojourner Truth: Sites in the Hudson Valley — Historical Selfie — a teacher's walking tour of places in Ulster County, New York, tied to Truth's early life: near her birthplace in Hurley, the river town where she was sold as a child, the farm she left with her infant daughter in 1826, the courthouse where she sued to win back her son, and the church where she felt called to preach. Watch it beside the narrative's own dates: it says New York ended slavery in 1827, that her enslaver broke a promise to free her a year earlier, and that she walked to freedom in the fall of 1826. Its claim that she was the first African American to win a court case is the video's and goes further than the record shows, and it names her speech of 1851 by a title that survives only in later versions written by others. (video, 11 min) (captions: automatic)

④ Seneca Falls and the Declaration of Sentiments

Chapter 10, Section “Read Seneca Falls: the Declaration of Sentiments” · Session 2, Segment 6, “More than the vote” · Remember: the Declaration of Sentiments copied the Declaration of Independence and asked for far more than the vote.

• Declaration of Sentiments — National Park Service — the full text of the declaration adopted at Seneca Falls in 1848, kept by Women's Rights National Historical Park, followed by the signers' names. Read the opening two paragraphs beside the Declaration of Independence, then list the grievances: the vote, laws women had no voice in making, married women's property and wages, divorce and custody, schooling, work, and the church. Find Frederick Douglass among the men who signed. It shows what the convention demanded; it does not show what the law gave women in 1848. (reading, 8–12 min)
• Dreams of Equality — Women's Rights National Historical Park — the park's film about the first women's rights convention, with a reenacted reading of the Declaration of Sentiments. It recounts the women barred from the London antislavery convention of 1840, the tea where the convention was planned, and the 68 women and 32 men who signed. The letters between a sister and her brother that frame the film are written for the film: the two characters are invented, so treat their letters as illustration, not as primary sources. Its closing minutes run into the Civil War and later years, which later weeks take up. (video, 23 min) (captions: creator)
• The Center of The Rebellion: The Elizabeth Cady Stanton House (with Ranger Don) — Women's Rights National Historical Park — a park ranger's talk inside Elizabeth Cady Stanton's house in Seneca Falls, where she lived from 1847. Listen for the story of the necklace, which shows how little a married woman owned under the law, for her meeting Lucretia Mott in London in 1840, and for her neighbors in a mill town. The second half follows her later work with Susan B. Anthony, which goes past this week. (video, 19 min) (captions: creator)

Optional one-stop reference (free online reference)

• The Narrative of Sojourner Truth — Avalon Project — the full text of the week's workshop document as the Avalon Project keeps it. Find the line on her birth near the start, where the first pinned fragment appears, and the passage on her enslaver's promise of free papers; notice that the narrative speaks of Truth as she throughout, and find the writer's name at the top. The later pages on her preaching and travels are optional. (reading, 20–30 min)

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