Slavery in Childrens Literature By Jami Shimp Slavery
Slavery in Children’s Literature By Jami Shimp
Slavery in Picture Books • How is slavery presented? • What will children remember? • What images are going to stay with them long after it is read?
Standards • 4. 1. 7 Explain the roles of various individuals, groups, and movements in the social conflicts leading to the Civil War. • 3. 3. 3 Determine what characters are like by what they say or do and by how the author or illustrator portrays them.
Presentation • Young girl on the verge of adolescence • Master • Living conditions • Work • Pictures are not perfect • Further investigation needed
Living Conditions
Work
Slave Trade
Summary • They all have a runaway, slave cabins, and field workers present • They all take place on a plantation • Give depictions that the masters are overly cruel people because those specific people are cruel, not slavery • Reading all suggested titles creates a accurate picture of slavery
Great Picture Books • Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt. Hopkinson, Deborah. • Now Let Me Fly: The Story of a Slave Family. Johnson, Dolores. • Aunt Harriet’s Underground Railroad in the Sky. Ringgold, Faith. • No More! Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance. Rappaport, Doreen. • Meet Addy. Porter, Connie Rose. • Follow the Drinking Gourd. Winter, Jeanette
Young Adult Titles • I thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl. Hansen, Joyce. • A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl Mc. Kissack, Patricia C. • Nightjohn. Paulsen, Gary. • Sarny: A Life Remembered. Paulsen, Gary.
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