1. Visit the Freedom on the Move website.
- Click on “Search.”
- Use a Gmail (your Boise State account should work) or Facebook account to log in and view the ads, or set up an account.
- Use the worksheet to analyze those ads.
2. Browse the ads on the “Last Seen” archive.
- Select three ads that are of particular interest.
- Use the worksheet to analyze those ads.
You can download the worksheet (.docx).
3. Answer these questions:
- Based on the text of chapters 14 and 15 and the primary sources accompanying those chapters, how did the lives of enslaved peoples change during the Civil War and Reconstruction?
- To what extent do the ads capture or hint at these changes?
- What do we learn from reading the ads alongside the American Yawp‘s primary sources that we might miss if we had read only one set of documents?
- If you were writing a book about this era, what additional kinds of primary sources would you seek, and why?