TEACHER RESOURCES

In the summer of 2004, the Mattatuck Museum conducted a Fortune's Story Teachers' Workshop. Forty teachers from Connecticut public schools attended the workshop and created curriculum materials based on Fortune's Story and on the story of slavery in the north.

Web-Based Curriculum
Click here to download web-based activities (PDF format)

Additional Internet Resources
Colonial Newspapers
http://earlyamerica.com

History of newspaper publishing in Connecticut
http://cslib.org/cnp/history.htm

Travel, mail, and newspaper in colonial America
http://usahistory.info/colonial/newspapers.html

Religion in Early America
http://loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel02.html

Farming in the Thirteen Colonies
http://www.socialstudiesforkids.com/articles/ushistory/13coloniesfarm.html

Colonial games and toys
http://www.ctstateu.edu/noahweb/games.html

A Colonial Family in Connecticut
http://hfmgov.org/education/smartfun/colonial/intro/index.html

18th Century Rescources
http://www.c18.org/li/history.html
http://andromeda.rutgers.edu/~jlynch/18th/history.html

Current Value of Old Money
http://www.ex.ac.uk/~RDavies/arian/current/howmuch.html

Slave Movement During the 18th and19th Centuries
http://dpls.dacc.wisc.edu?slavedata/index.html

Chronology on the History of Slavery
http://www.innercity.org/holt/slavechron.html

Slave Narratives
http://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/slave_images.html

Connecticut and Slavery
http://www.ctnow.com/news/local/northeast/hc-slavery.special