Center the antebellum abolition movement as BLACK-LED intellectually and organizationally — David Walker 1829, Maria Stewart 1832, William Lloyd Garrison 1831, Frederick Douglass 1845-1852, Sojourner Truth 1851, Harriet Tubman + Underground Railroad
Exercise Difficulty 5 ~10 min hist.g5.s.ex_48

Walker Appeal Close Read

MG-7 Interactive Physical / non-image

Federal Founding-Era Archive Card (continued from G5-Fall) — 4-page foldable card per primary source. PAGE 1 SOURCING: Who made this? When? Where? Why? PAGE 2 CONTEXTUALIZATION: What was happening in the world when this was made? PAGE 3 CORROBORATION: Does another source say the same thing? Does another source disagree? PAGE 4 CLOSE READING: What does this actually say? + NMAI 5th MOVE box: Whose voices are present in this source? Whose voices are absent? What land are we standing on as we read this? G5-Spring extension: source-type checkbox now includes 15 types (added CONSTITUTION-CLAUSE + AMENDMENT + EDITORIAL to G5-Fall's 12). Each child collects ~30 completed MG-7 cards by Lesson 22 in their Founding-Documents Binder (continued from G5-Fall).

Prompt

Apply MG-7 full Wineburg + NMAI 5th to Walker's Appeal Preamble 1829. Identify Walker's argument + the source's significance as preceding Garrison's Liberator by 2 years.

How it's presented
mode MG7 full
Answer criteria
type MG7 full
required pages
SOURCINGCONTEXTUALIZATIONCORROBORATIONCLOSE_READINGNMAI_5TH
Hints
  1. Published Boston September 1829
  2. Walker died mysteriously June 1830
  3. NMAI 5th: whose voices present (Walker's own Black voice) and absent (Walker did not survive to write more)
Misconceptions to watch
  • Missing the 'before Garrison' chronology
  • Skipping NMAI 5th