Runaway Slave Library Assignment
Read the section in your textbook about the Runaway Slaves to provide context.
Your newspaper resource for this assignment are:
Freedom on the Move https://freedomonthemove.org/
The Geography of Slavery in Virginia http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/gos/
North Carolina Runaway Slave Ads http://libcdm1.uncg.edu/cdm/landingpage/collection/RAS
Step 1: Choose a paper topic:
Topic 1: Compare ads (1730s to 1790) about runaways from Southern Colonies with ads for runaways from northern colonies. Make sure you have ads from both northern and southern colonies. You will have to find Southern colonies in the Virginia database or North Carolina database.
Topic 2: Compare ads from northern states and southern states from 1774 to 1820. Make sure you include ads from a variety of states and decades.
Topic 3: Compare runaway slave ads from the old south (Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, and Maryland) with the trans-mountain west (Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas) during the period from 1821 to 1860.
Topic 4: Compare runaway slave ads from the 1840s to runaway slave ads from the 1850s.
Step 2: Find and follow the newspaper instructions for your topic:
Topic 1: Students must have 12 ads from newspapers from northern colonies (Conn, Mass, NJ, NY, Penn) and 12 ads from southern colonies between the 1730s to 1773. You can decide whether your 25th ad is from the north or south.
Those can be found in Freedom on the Move; The Geography of Slavery in Virginia; and the North Carolina Runaway Slave Ads.
Topic 2: Students must have 12 ads from newspapers from northern states (Conn, Mass, NJ, NY, Penn, RI) and twelve ads from southern states between the 1774 to 1820. You can decide whether your 25th ad is from the north or south.
Those can be found in Freedom on the Move; The Geography of Slavery in Virginia; the North Carolina Runaway Slave Ads, and Chronicling America.
Topic 3
Each student is responsible for 12 ads from 1821 to 1850 from the old south (Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, South Carolina, and Maryland) and 12 ads from the trans-mountain west (Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas). You can decide if your 25th ad is from the old south or trans-mountain south.
Those can be found in Freedom on the Move; The Geography of Slavery in Virginia; the North Carolina Runaway Slave Ads, and Chronicling America.
Topic 4
Each student is responsible for 12 ads from the 1840s and 12 ads from the 1850s. You can decide if your 25th ad is from the 1840s or 1850s.
Those can be found in Freedom on the Move; The Geography of Slavery in Virginia; the North Carolina Runaway Slave Ads, and Chronicling America.
Step 3:
In your assignment submission:
Source of the Ad (which database for the ad)
Citation (Name of newspaper, date of newspaper; location of newspaper)
Source of the ad (the owner of the slave or an agent of the government (sheriff or jailor)
Name of the person that placed the ad
Name of Runaway; Age of Runaway; Gender of Runaway
Reward amount
If jailed is there a payment required for the return of the slave
The link to the ad
Rubric for Runaway Slave Ads
# of ads (25 points possible)
25 ads from each of the time periods outlined in the assignment (41-50 points possible)
15-19 ads = 31-40 points possible
10-14 ads= 21-30 points possible
5-9 ads= 11-20 points possible
0-5 ads= 1-10 points possible
Including the material (25 points possible)
All 25 ads have the required material = 41-50 points possible
15-19 ads have the required material = 31-40 points possible
10-14 ads have the required material = 21-30 points possible
5-9 ads have the required material = 11-20 points possible
0-5 ads have the required material = 1-10 points possible
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