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Field Notebook

Visual Images

Minstrel Show Sheet Music Covers
1.  What were minstrel shows?  What impact did they have?
 
 
 

2.  What is your reaction to these sheet music covers?
 
 
 

3.  What image of slavery do they present?
 
 
 

4.  How do they represent slaves?
 
 
 

Anti-Slavery Texts Gallery of Images
1.  Write a reaction statement to these images:
 
 
 
 
 
 

Illustrations from Uncle Tom's Cabin
1.  Quick Think Question:  Compare and contrast these pictures with the ones from the Sheet Music Covers and the Anti-Slavery Texts.  How do they present slavery?
 
 
 

2.  What kinds of relationships between slaves and masters are presented in the novel as you see them in these pictures?
 
 
 

3.  What do they show about slaves themselves?
 
 
 
 

Responses to the Novel: Pro-Slavery Texts
1.  Since these novels were written just after Uncle Tom's Cabin, how do the two compare?
 
 
 

2.  What images of slavery, slaves, and masters do they present?
 
 
 
 


Use the following sets of questions to more fully examine the summary pictures that you have chosen.  For each picture that you choose, answer the questions.


1.  Where did you find this image on the site?
 

2.  Where is the historical source of the image?
 

3.  What does it show?
 
 

4.  What is the larger importance of this image?  (i.e..  How does it relate to the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and why is it significant?)
 
 
 

1.  Where did you find this image on the site?
 

2.  Where is the historical source of the image?
 

3.  What does it show?
 
 

4.  What is the larger importance of this image?  (i.e..  How does it relate to the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and why is it significant?)
 
 
 

1.  Where did you find this image on the site?
 

2.  Where is the historical source of the image?
 

3.  What does it show?
 
 

4.  What is the larger importance of this image?  (i.e..  How does it relate to the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and why is it significant?)
 
 
 

1.  Where did you find this image on the site?
 

2.  Where is the historical source of the image?
 

3.  What does it show?
 
 

4.  What is the larger importance of this image?  (i.e..  How does it relate to the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and why is it significant?)
 
 
 

1.  Where did you find this image on the site?
 

2.  Where is the historical source of the image?
 

3.  What does it show?
 
 

4.  What is the larger importance of this image?  (i.e..  How does it relate to the novel Uncle Tom's Cabin and why is it significant?)