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Slavery and Maine Grades 6-12

• Teacher Guide to Primary Source Packets
• Introduction
• Primary Sources
• Source Labels

Analysis Worksheets:

• Written Document
• Image
• Artifact

Note – worksheets are pdfs that can both be printed or filled out online.

Thank you to Emma Soler and Dr. Andrew Baker of Bates College for their work reviewing these materials.

Optional Resources

• 1820 Newspaper article on the Missouri Compromise debate
• Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers’ Project, 1936 to 1938
• Teaching Tolerance—a Framework for Teaching American Slavery
• Slavery—Crash Course US History
• Maine Statehood and the Missouri Compromise (Grades 9-12) – Maine Historical Society Lesson Plan
• K-12 Supplemental Booklist from the Maine State Library

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