Theresa: A Haytien Tale (1828)

Edited by Eric Gardner and Nicole Aljoe
(Winter 2015, No. 1)

"Theresa, A Haytien Tale" was serialized in the January 18, January 25, February 8, and February 15, 1828 issues of the Freedom's Journal.

"Theresa, A Haytien Tale" transcription (PDF)

Resources for Teaching

Classroom activities, assignments & student reflections

•  McGee and Roby (Moody grad students)-lesson plan
• Dean—classroom activity
• Aljoe—copy of essay assignment and excerpts from student essays
• Smith—sample lesson plan

Teaching Reflections

• Joycelyn Moody, English Graduate level course, UT-San Antonio
• ​Nicole N. Aljoe, Northeastern University
• Michael Dean, History, Illinois Math and Science Academy
• Adam Kotlarczyk, English, Illinois Math and Science Academy
• Brigitte Fielder, Literature and Folklore Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
• Ed White, Tulane University
• Katy L. Chiles, University of Tennessee

TEI

TEI-encoded by Sarah Stanley
XML File using TEI encoding 

Links and Contextual information

Images

• Slavery Images: A Visual Record of the African Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Early African Diaspora

Contexts

• “An Account of the Wife of Toussaint Louverture”. The Christian Observer. No. 35. November 1804 (No. 11. Vol III) p. 675.

Haiti & Haitian Revolution

•  The Louverture project, a free Haitian history resource
• “Slave Resistance: A Revolution in Haiti”  

Early 19^th Century Black Social Activism

• David Walkers Appeal
• The Colored Conventions Project

Early Black Periodicals

• PBS Online, The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords, Freedom’s Journal
• Former Offices of Freedom’s Journal, Mapping the African American Past
• Digital images of volumes 1 and 2 of Freedom’s Journal are available here

Early 19^th Century Black Writing

• Digital Schomburg, African American Women Writers of the 19^th Century

Representations of Black Women in 19^th century

• Digital Schomburg
• Dido Belle
• Sara ‘Saartjie’ Baartman/“Venus Hottentot”
• “Josephine Dessaline, The Empress of Hayti” in Lewis Goldsmith, The female revolutionary Plutarch: containing biographical, historical and revolutionary sketches, characters and anecdotes (1806)