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Born free in Boston, Maria Stewart was orphaned at five years old and hired out as a domestic. While a young woman, Maria met David Walker, author of AN APPEAL TO THE COLORED PEOPLE OF THE WORLD ...
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How did the arts of Africa influence the arts of enslaved African Americans? Why did South Carolina law prohibit slaves from playing drums? What did it mean to "pat juba"? Were slaves entitled to education? Did they go to school? If not, how did they learn to read and write?
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Learn about Thomas Jefferson's ideas concerning black intelligence and other perspectives on slave education and culture through documents dating to the Colonial, Antebellum, and Reconstruction periods in American history.
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Listen to music that slaves worked, prayed, and danced to and learn about the instruments that shaped the sounds of life under slavery.
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Read and listen to compelling first-hand accounts of life under slavery and Reconstruction.
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