Excerpt: "Slave Young, Slave Long" pp. 20 — 27

·Greene, Meg. Slave Young, Slave Long: The American Slave Experience. Minneapolis: Lerner Publications Company, 1999.

Song: "Victor Nelson's Cotton Field, Elgin, Texas, 1940" Vocalist: Jevetta Steele

·Hannibal * Chicago Symphony Orchestra * Barenboim. African Portraits. "Victor Nelson's Cotton Field, Elgin, Texas, 1940." Hamburg, Germany: A Warner Music Group Company, 1995.

Excerpt: "The Work of Slavery" pp. 41 - 46

· Stepto, Michele., ed. Our Song, Our Toil: The Story of American Slavery as Told by Slaves. Brookfield, Connecticut: The Millbrook Press, 1994.

Photography: Photograph of a plantation owner with his riffle and dog, slave men, women, children in the cotton fields. Library of Congress p. 35

Quote: "To Be a Slave" by Julius Lester

·Meadows, James. Slavery: The Struggle for Freedom. Minnesota: The Child's World, Inc., 2002.

 

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