The Caroline Chronicles: A Story of Race, Urban Slavery, and Infanticide in the Border South

Teach the Caroline Chronicles

Do you want to engage your students in an active learning experience, have them explore primary documents, and debate campus and community issues including race and policing, war refugees, and human trafficking in the context of the past? Consider teaching The Caroline Chronicles in your next U.S. History course.

The Caroline Chronicles is a unique, document-driven learning activity. It can be used in an AP U.S. History classroom, undergraduate survey, or topical seminar on race and slavery, gender history, law and civics, the Civil War era, or Southern history.

Instructor and student packets

  • 17 rich primary source documents
  • 3 contextualizing secondary readings
  • 3 prompts for writing assignments, with grading guides for instructors
  • Instructions for an in-class courtroom activity

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Read a recap of one student group’s experience to see how The Caroline Chronicles might fit into your classroom.