The History Student and the American Slave Experience: The Dime Novel as Method.

Chilcoat, George

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Publication Date: 1987

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The History Student and the American Slave Experience: The Dime Novel as Method.

Chilcoat, George

Western Journal of Black Studies, v11 n4 p193-97 Fall 1987

Dime novels, short melodramatic paperbacks written in America from 1840 to 1910, are useful in helping secondary school students understand the slave experience in the United States. Writing a dime novel can be used as a class activity; the procedure for using dime novels in the classroom is discussed. (BJV)

Descriptors: Black History, Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Creative Writing, Historiography, History Instruction, Instructional Materials, Intellectual History, Novels, Popular Culture, Research Methodology, Secondary Education, Slavery, Social Science Research

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Information Analyses; Guides - Non-Classroom

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Language: English

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