{"id":238,"date":"2015-01-22T09:32:20","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T14:32:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject-new\/?page_id=238"},"modified":"2023-01-16T10:32:41","modified_gmt":"2023-01-16T15:32:41","slug":"using-music-to-teach-abolitionist-history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/using-music-to-teach-abolitionist-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Using Music to Teach Abolitionist History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The four lessons below, designed for middle to high-school classrooms, allow students to explore four moments in U.S. abolitionism through&nbsp;songs and lyrics.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/files\/2023\/01\/FINAL-Gone-Sold-and-Gone-Curriculum-combined-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lesson 1: Testimony to the Horrors of Slavery: &#8220;Sold and Gone&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/files\/2014\/04\/America-a-Parody-Curriculum.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lesson 2: Protest as Citizenship: Rewriting &#8220;My Country &#8217;tis of Thee&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/files\/2023\/01\/Elizas-Flight-Curriculum-Final.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lesson 3: Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin Depicts a Dramatic Escape from Slavery: &#8220;Eliza&#8217;s Flight<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 30px\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/files\/2023\/01\/FINAL-Get-Off-the-Track-Curriculum.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Lesson 4: The Turn to Electoral Politics: The Liberty Party and the Election of 1844<\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">The Dutchess Antislavery Singers recorded performances of seven abolitionist songs, including those discussed above, and<a title=\"Dutchess Antislavery Singers\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/antislavery-singers\/\"> these are available on YouTube for classroom use<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">MHAHP wishes to thank the <a href=\"http:\/\/levysheetmusic.mse.jhu.edu\/\">Lester S. Levy Sheet Music Collection at The Johns Hopkins University Library<\/a> for permission to use its online resources.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject-new\/files\/2015\/01\/GOTTCoverjpg.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-241 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject-new\/files\/2015\/01\/GOTTCoverjpg-784x1024.jpg\" alt=\"GOTTCover,jpg\" width=\"784\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/files\/2015\/01\/GOTTCoverjpg-784x1024.jpg 784w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/files\/2015\/01\/GOTTCoverjpg-230x300.jpg 230w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 784px) 100vw, 784px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The four lessons below, designed for middle to high-school classrooms, allow students to explore four moments in U.S. abolitionism through&nbsp;songs and lyrics. Lesson 1: Testimony to the Horrors of Slavery: &#8220;Sold and Gone&#8221; Lesson 2: Protest as Citizenship: Rewriting &#8220;My Country &#8217;tis of Thee&#8221; Lesson 3: Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin Depicts a Dramatic Escape from Slavery: [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":185,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/full-width.php","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-238","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/185"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":18,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/238\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/mhantislaveryhistoryproject\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}