This is a brief lesson designed to introduce students to the lives and contributions of Sarah and Angelina Grimke, two remarkable sisters, who played a pivotal role in the Abolitionist and Suffrage Movements in South Carolina and the United States.
Through learning about the lives of an abolitionist and a suffragist from Oregon’s history, students will identify ways that real people fought for their rights and ways that people fight against injustice every day, highlighting that in every place and time, people have fought for their rights and freedom.
A DPLA primary Source Set about John Brown that has been imported onto OER Commons.Content Warnings: Old John Brow: A song for Every Southern Man contains slurs, outdated and offensive language is utilized in several other of the primary sources as well.Original primary source set created by Nancy Schurr, Chattanooga State Community College, TennesseeImported into OER Commons by Andrew CharltonJones as part of his capstone for his University of Washington MLIS Degree
A test of bringing DPLA primary Source Set onto OER Commons. Still in progress!
No longer considered ‘side’ issues within eighteenth and nineteenth-century studies, slavery, ‘race’, abolition and emancipation are now understood to occupy a central place, not only within the period’s history, but within its literature, philosophy and the concerns of canonical and less well-known writers. The course moves forward to the present day to consider how slavery persists as a central concern within world literature.
This course explores the issue of human trafficking for forced labour and sexual slavery, focusing on its representation in recent scholarly accounts and advocacy as well as in other media. Ethnographic and fictional readings along with media analysis help to develop a contextualized and comparative understanding of the phenomena in both past and present contexts. It examines the wide range of factors and agents that enable these practices, such as technology, cultural practices, social and economic conditions, and the role of governments and international organizations. The course also discusses the analytical, moral and methodological questions of researching, writing, and representing trafficking and slavery.