Go to the Resource Bank of Africans in America: Part 4, 1831-1865- Judgment Day (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/index.html).

1		Scroll down to the section called “Modern Voices” and read these short pieces by historians of 19th century African-American slavery. Does the picture they paint of slave life mesh consistently with any one of the views of the various historians mentioned in the Where Historians Disagree section of the text?
2		What is the difference between the descriptions of slavery given during the 1950s by historians such as Kenneth Stampp and Stanley Elkins and those given by the next generation of historians of slavery such as Herbert Gutman and Eugene Genovese? On which side, if either, of these perspectives on slavery do the commentators on this website come down?
3		According to these commentators, what role did gender distinctions play in the shaping of slaves’ daily lives? Did their status as slaves change the roles that men and women adopted in the quarters, the fields and the house?
4		Why do these differing interpretations of slavery matter to modern Americans?

Other sites with primary and secondary sources about slavery include:

5		Africans in America (http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/home.html). Along with the above-mentioned resource bank, this site has a wealth of primary and secondary material on the experience of African-American slaves from the 1500s through the end of the Civil War. American Slave Narratives: An Online Anthology (http://xroads.virginia.edu/~HYPER/wpa/wpahome.html). The Confessions of Nat Turner- narrative of the leader of the largest slave revolt in U.S. history as transcribed by a white contemporary from Turner’s jail cell. (http://afroamhistory.about.com/library/blturner_confession1.htm).