Contents

Introduction

Map exercise: antebellum African-America

Data analysis: African Americans on the eve of the Civil War

Image analysis: northern prejudice

Document analysis: black leaders speak

Extension: group exercise

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Cite as: Patrick Rael, Black Activism in the Antebellum North: A Lesson Plan (Brunswick, ME: Bowdoin College, 2005).

(c) 2005 Patrick Rael, Associate Professor of History, Bowdoin College