Runaway slave / Bernarda Bryson	Let My People Go Trailblazers 7th Grade Project On Slavery Mr. Larkin (Social Studies) & Mrs. Light (English) Stafford Middle School, Plattsburgh NY

Click Here for the References from Class: 

Slavery– Starting Resources
	African-American Experience http://www.history.org/Almanack/life/Af_Amer/aalife.cfm
	Africans in America Web site http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/narrative_txt.html The Growth of Slavery in North America http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr5_txt.html Religion and Slavery http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part2/2narr2.html
	Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia New Book of Knowledge Encyclopedia Americana Look Here for General Information (Geography, History etc.) Ask Mr. Puschak for the password for home access
	www.worldbookonline.com Use ID: staffordms P_ssword: staffordms

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Web Links

Primary Documents & Illustrations:

http://hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu/Slavery/search.html

Daily Life of Slaves:

http://cghs.dade.k12.fl.us/slavery/antebellum_slavery/plantation_slave_life/health.htm

http://www.monticello.org/jefferson/dayinlife/plantation/home.html

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2956.html

http://www.headleypark.bristol.sch.uk/slavery/tradetriangle/plantationlife.htm

http://americanabolitionist.liberalarts.iupui.edu/slavery_life_cycle.htm

http://www.stratfordhall.org/africa.html?HISTORY

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/black_voices/voices_display.cfm?id=44

http://www.newsday.com/community/guide/lihistory/ny-history-hs313a,0,5978045.story?coll=ny-lihistory-navigation

http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/historyonline/us16.cfm

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/jefferson/slaves/

Slave Diary Excerpts:

http://docsouth.unc.edu/burton/burton.html

http://digilib.nypl.org/dynaweb/digs/wwm97262/@Generic__BookTextView/187;hf=0#X

http://docsouth.unc.edu/williamsjames/williams.html

Middle Passage:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part1/1narr4.html

http://www.radford.edu/~geog-web/alliance/activity4.html

http://www.antislavery.org/breakingthesilence/main/Activities/03_TriangularTrade.pdf

Slave Narratives:

WPA

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fpnas:@field(SUBJ+diaries):heading=Diaries

http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/fpnas:autobiography:heading=Autobiographies

By Name: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/mesnbibnarrindex.html

By State: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/mesnbibStates1.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/voices/vfssp.html

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snvoices00.html

Other Naratives

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper/wpa/index.html

Slave Names:

Afro-Louisiana History & Genealogy 1719-1820
http://ibiblio.org/laslave/miscell.php

Underground Railroad:

http://home.earthlink.net/~lthorn/lnks.html

http://www.ugrworkshop.com/welcome.htm

http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/

http://www.freedomtrail.org

http://www.lessonplanspage.com/SSLAMusicCivilWarUnit-UnitOutline46.htm

http://www.teachervision.fen.com/lesson-plans/lesson-4969.html?detoured=1

http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ugrr/

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2273/

http://www.remc11.k12.mi.us/bstpract/bpIII/091/091.PDF

http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/routes.htm

Code Quilts:

http://home.columbus.rr.com/bradshaw/UNDERRR/quilt/underground_railroad_quilt.htm

http://www.africanaonline.com/slavery_codewords.htm

http://www.hartcottagequilts.com/railroad.htm

http://www.sdcoe.k12.ca.us/score/sweet/sweettg.html

http://my.voyager.net/~econnect/quiltcode.pdf

http://www.thesolutionsite.com/lpnew/lesson/16251/patchworkparade5.html

Abolitionists:

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p1561.html

Slavery in the North Country:

http://www.apnmag.com/Back%20in%20the%20Day/fall%2002/slaves/underground%20railroad.htm

Music Links and Lesson Plans:

http://archive.blackvoices.com/blackboard/bb_mus_000115.htm#mat

http://www2.lhric.org/pocantico/tubman/gourd.htm

http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/content/2282/

http://www.angelfire.com/nj2/sbgoose/math5.html

http://www.iupui.edu/~geni/lsort/spirituals_ugrr_rt.html

http://www.negrospirituals.com/

*Source: Newsweek Magazine As many as 300 slaves were packed into ships for the 'Middle Passage' from Africa to the Americas

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