Image Credits

 

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-Osman the Maroon in the Swamp - Porte Crayon, David Hunter Strother, Library Company of Philadelphia, Books & Other Texts

Overview

-Living in a Hollow Tree - William Still, New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division

-Carting Shingles - David Hunter Strother, Hathi Trust Digital Library, Cornell Making of America

-Harriet Jacobs in 1894 - New York Public Library, Digital Collections

-Baltimore - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

-Fugitive slave as advertised for capture - New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

Teacher Background

-Trelawney Town, the Chief residence of the Maroons - New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division

-Negroes hiding in the swamps of Louisiana - New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

Learning Standards

-Negroes leaving their home - New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

Extensions

-ONE HUNDRED DOLLARS REWARD - Maryland State Archives

-Gates County to 1860 - Isaas S. Harrell, Article in Trinity College Historical Society Papers

-Frederick Douglass - New York Public Library, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Division of Art, Prints and Photographs: Print Collection

-In the swamp - Henry Louis Stephens, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

-Slave Hunt, Dismal Swamp, Virginia - Thomas Moran, Wikimedia Commons

-Narrative of the life of Frederick Douglass, an American slave (frontispiece and title page) - New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division

-Harriet Jacobs in 1894 - New York Public Library, Digital Collections

-Freewater Book Cover - Tracy Shaw, Hachette Book Group, Inc.

-City of Baltimore - The BEARINGS of Balitmore, Imaging Research Center, University of Maryland Baltimore County

-Slavery's Exiles Book Cover - Charles B. Hames

-Runaway Slaves: Rebels on the Plantation Book Cover - Julie Metz

-The Political Worlds of Slavery and Freedom Book Jacket - Jill Breitbarth, Richard Seagraves, Getty Images

-Scraping By: Wage Labor, Slavery, and Survival in Early Baltimore Book Cover - Susan Koski Zucker, American Antiquarian Society, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division

-Divided Mastery: Slave Hiring in the American South Book Cover - Gwen Nefsky Frankfeldt

-A Global History of Runaways: Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism 1600-1850 - University of California Press

Lesson 1

-Living in a Hollow Tree - William Still, New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture/Manuscripts, Archives and Rare Books Division

-Hand Drawn Retro Pocket Watch - Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik

-Engraving vintage hand drawn library open, close books collection - Image by sentavio on Freepik

Lesson 2

-Carting Shingles - David Hunter Strother, Hathi Trust Digital Library, Cornell Making of America

-$50 Reward - Raleigh, N.C. Spirit of the Age, North Carolina Runaway Slave Notices

-$30 Reward - Old North State, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro/Freedom on the Move Database

-50 Dollars Reward - Edenton Gazette And North Carolina General Advertiser, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro/Freedom on the Move Database

-Hand Drawn Retro Pocket Watch - Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik

-Engraving vintage hand drawn library open, close books collection - Image by sentavio on Freepik

Lesson 3

-Harriet Jacobs in 1894 - New York Public Library, Digital Collections

-Hand Drawn Retro Pocket Watch - Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik

-Engraving vintage hand drawn library open, close books collection - Image by sentavio on Freepik

Lesson 4

-Baltimore - Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA

-Hand Drawn Retro Pocket Watch - Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik

-Engraving vintage hand drawn library open, close books collection - Image by sentavio on Freepik

Lesson 5

-Fugitive slave as advertised for capture - New York Public Library, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Photographs and Prints Division

-Hand Drawn Retro Pocket Watch - Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik

-Engraving vintage hand drawn library open, close books collection - Image by sentavio on Freepik

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Lesson Title Credits

 

Lesson 2: "Paradise of Serpents and Poisonous Vegetation"

-James Redpath, "The Dismal Swamp," The roving editor; or, Talks with slaves in the Southern States,, A.B. Burdick, 1859, 288.

Lesson 3: "But the Women Don't Run Away So Much"

-"Recollections of Slavery by a Runaway Slave," Emancipator, September 20, 1838.

Lesson 4: Urban "Lurking": City Maroons in Antebellum Baltimore

-Mary Niall Mitchell, "Lurking but Working: City Maroons in Antebellum New Orleans," in A Global History of Runaways, Workers, Mobility, and Capitalism 1600-1850, edited by Marcus Rediker, Titas Chakraborty, and Matthias Van Rossum (Oakland: University of California Press, 2019), 199 – 215.