1. Quick Fire: Remember the school-wide policy?
All current freshman must serve as janitors every morning for the rest of their high school career in order to graduate.
How might you respond to this?
Are there ways to resist without getting in trouble?

2. What are ways that slaves could resist slavery?

3. Resistance
Passive Resistance: Indirectly resisting the boundaries set by slavery.
Active Resistance: Directly resisting slavery by going outside of the bounds.

4. Texas Slave Population, 1860
Primary
Source
Adventures:
Runaway
Slaves
University of North Texas Libraries

5. University of North Texas Libraries
Green Cumby WPA Slave Narrative
Primary
Source
Adventures:
Runaway
Slaves
University of North Texas Libraries

6. A Journey Through Texas. 1857.
Frederick Law Olmsted,
A Journey Through Texas.
1857.
Primary
Source
Adventures:
Runaway
Slaves
University of North Texas Libraries

7. Marshall Texas Republican March 25, 1859
Primary
Source
Adventures:
Runaway
Slaves
Marshall Texas Republican
March 25, 1859
University of North Texas Libraries

8. Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph October 19, 1958
Primary
Source
Adventures:
Runaway
Slaves
Houston Tri-Weekly Telegraph
October 19, 1958
University of North Texas Libraries

9. University of North Texas Libraries
Clarksville
Northern Standard
January 6, 1855
Primary
Source
Adventures:
Runaway
Slaves
University of North Texas Libraries

10. Clarksville Northern Standard May 5, 1855
Primary
Source
Adventures:
Runaway
Slaves
Clarksville Northern Standard
May 5, 1855
University of North Texas Libraries

11. University of North Texas Libraries
Primary
Source
Adventures:
Runaway
Slaves
Clarksville
Northern Standard
October 24, 1857
University of North Texas Libraries

12. Primary Source Questions
What does this source tell us about slaves?
What does this source tell us about what slavery was like?
What does this source tell us about how slaves resisted slavery?

13. Slavery Story
You are going to write a story about your experience in slavery.
Requirements:
Between 1-2 pages
Size 12 Font
Typed in Word (on your computer)
ed to Me

14. Slavery Story You must answer the following questions with your story.
Where were you born?
What sort of work did you do?
What was your life like?
How did you passively resist slavery?
How did you actively resist slavery?