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Underground Railroad Websites Underground Railroad: general resources Underground Railroad: Special Resource Study (National Park Service): Includes a general overview, a brief discussion of slavery and abolitionism, escape routes used by slaves, and alternatives to commemorate and interpret the signficance of the phenomenon.National Underground Railroad Freedom Center: teaching lessons of courage and cooperation from Underground Railroad history to promote collaborative learning, dialogue, and action in order to inspire today`s freedom movements. Underground Railroad Site (UC Davis). The Underground Railroad : National Geographic's Underground Railroad site. Presents a small simulation similar to Flight to Freedom. William Still Underground Railroad Foundation: Focuses on ensuring the accurate depiction of the historical events pertaining to the UGRR and Anti-Slavery Society. Underground Railroad: The True Story of Josiah Henson: Images and story of Henson who was born a slave in Maryland and escaped to Canada where he helped found the Dawn Settlement. Underground Railroad: following the trail History and Geography of the Underground Railroad: Information on the organization and operations of the Underground Railroad.North Carolina Discoveries: The Underground Railroad: About this states role in the escape route for slaves. Kentucky's Underground Railroad: Passage to Freedom: Kentucky people and places that played roles in the fugitive slave movement. Includes a teachers' resource section. Friends of Freedom Society - Ohio Underground Railroad Association: Volunteer organization working to research, identify, document, and preserve Ohio Underground Railroad sites. The Underground Railroad and York County, Pennsylvania: Offers images and background of locations throughout the county. The Underground Railroad in Rochester: An overview of slavery, the Fugitive Slave Act, abolitionists, the Railroad and its history in Rochester, New York. Underground Railroad in Canada: Map of main settlement towns, related links, and commemorations. Underground Railroad Years: Canada in an International Arena: Offers an illustrated history and interactive games. African Canadian Heritage Tour: Celebrates those who made the journey to freedom in Canada via the Underground Railroad. Features communities and museums in southwestern Ontario. Black History in Guelph and Wellington County: Exhibit featuring slavery in Upper Canada, the Underground Railroad, Black settlements, religion, and more. Underground Railroad: local sites Menare Foundation: Non-profit organization dedicated to the documentation, preservation, and restoration of Underground Railroad safe-houses. Created from historian Anthony Cohen's work on the Underground Railroad.Buxton National Historic Site: Celebrates the Underground Railroad and early Black settlement in Canada. Hubbard House Underground Railroad Museum: 19th century residence with exhibits commemorating the civil war and anti-slavery efforts. Levi Coffin House: Once a stop on the Underground Railroad, this National Historic Landmark is a Federal style brick home built in 1839. St. James AME Church: Underground Railroad Project: Offers historical information and data about the church's involvement in the Underground Railroad. Milton House Museum: Hexagonal stagecoach inn, stop on the Underground Railroad, 19th century exhibits, unique architecture, and more. Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site: Includes the Josiah Henson House, Underground Railroad Freedom Gallery, Henson Family Cemetery, an interpretive centre, and more. General African-American History Websites
Causes of the Civil War: Compilation of documents from the era of succession. Harpweek: Toward Racial Equality: Text and imagery relating to African Americans, found in the pages of Harper's Weekly, 1857- 1876. Historical United States Census Data Browser: On-line system for querying historical census data; includes much data on African Americans. Selected Civil War Photographs Home Page (Library of Congress): Searchable database of Civil War images. Uncle Tom's Cabin and American Culture: A Multi-Media Archive (University of Virginia and the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center in Hartford, CT): Award-winning site focuses on an important text and its historical context. African American Odyssey (Library of Congress): Explores black America's quest for equality. Pamphlet collection contains materials by African American authors about slavery, colonization, Emancipation and Reconstruction. Africana.com: Daily news, links to African American related shopping and multimedia sites. The African-American Mosaic Exhibition (Library of Congress): A resource guide to the institution's African American collections including colonization, Abolition, migrations and the WPA. African American Pamphlets Home Page (Library of Congress): Review of African American history and culture with material published between 1875-1900. Africans in America (PBS): American Slave Narratives (UVa): Read samples of slave narratives and see photos taken at the time of the interviews. Amistad Online (Mystic Seaport Museum) Explores the Amistad Revolt of 1839-1842 and how we make history of it. The Atlantic: Black History, American History: On-line version of the magazine with links and a search engine. The Black Press: Soldiers Without Swords (PBS): Contains information about film, newspapers, modern journals, timelines, interactive activities, discussion and chat. Freedmen and Southern Society Project (UMd): Depicts the drama of emancipation in the words of the participants via documents and interpretive essays. Secession Era Editorials Project: Explores editorials about the Nebraska Bill, Caning of Sumner, Dred Scott and Harpers Ferry/John Brown. Slave Voices from the Duke University Special Collections Library: The exhibit probes the life experiences of slaves from the late eighteenth to nineteenth century, and examines the enterprise of recovering and preserving African American history. The Valley of the Shadow: Two Communities in the American Civil War (UVa): A hypermedia archive of sources (newspapers, letters, diaries, maps, etc.) for the period before, during and after the Civil War in PA and VA. WPA Life Histories--Home Page (Library of Congress) Contains manuscripts from the Federal Writer's Project 1936-1940. The collection includes 2900 documents varying in form from narrative to dialogue to report to case history.
Ben Gott, AfroWeb: A Student's Resource Brian Losier and Marco Quina, The Civil War in Popular Culture Sophia Mendoza, Elkins, Sambo, and Turner Alissa Rooney, Speaking Out: Theories and Methods of American Abolition Gloria Sonnen, The Enslaved African-American Woman: Her Plight Lindsay Szramek, The Slave Experience in the Civil War Miles Tarbell, Crispus Attucks Nicholas Williams, Jefferson and Slavery: An American Paradox |
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