Abolitionism, Fugitive slaves, slave narratives, and the Underground Railroad - Eureka! Inquiry Unlimited practitioner formerly sited at Boston KidWeb at Joseph Lee School, Boston, MA

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A student challenge Abolitionism and the Underground Railroad
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The pieces of the puzzle. ( Books )

Underground Railroad

1800s

Slave Narratives and biographies (To Be A Slave guide )
1800s

Abolitionists
1800s

Fugitive slaves
1800s

Fugitive Slave Law

1800s

Abolitionism in Massachusetts
1800s

Underground Railroad - location, maps

Underground Railroad description
Franklin County and the underground railroad

Fugitive Slave Law

Fugitive Slave Law data

Escape stories of fugitive slaves, slave narratives, biographies

Slave narratives in print
Index of slave narratives done in the 1920s
Original student slave narratives

Harriet Jacobs' recollections

Henry "Box" Brown's explanation of his escape

Frederick Douglass escape

Douglass' later involvement with 54th Massachusetts Colored Regiment

Harriet Tubman biography

Her early life through photos and documents
1899 Affadavit for pension - Affadavit, page 1 | Affadavit, page 2 (classroom activity with primary source document)
1889 Charles Wood interview with Harriet Tubman for proving her service in the Civil War and Sarah H. Bradford collaboration on Scenes from the Life of Harriet Tubman to raise money for Harriet's care
January, 1950 - Earl Conrad's article in The Negro History Bulletin entitled "The Charles P. Wood Manuscripts of Harriet Tubman" (excerpt)
Student sponsored bill to get Harriet's pay from the Civil War - Tubman back pay
Tubman quote

Sojourner Truth biography

William and Ellen Craft Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom

1850 - living in the house of Lewis Hayden in Boston (1850 U. S. Census activity)

Anthony Burns - the escape, capture, mock trial, and export of Anthony Burns (connections to Lewis Hayden in Boston)

Anthony Burns in the Massachusetts Court System
Anthony Burns captured
Anthony Burns notice
Anthony Burns Trial

Shadrach Minkins and his ordeal

Lewis Hayden indicted in Shadrach Minkins episode

Thomas Simms

Contributions of Lewis Hayden

Lewis Hayden House and African American Meeting House
Lewis Hayden indicted in Shadrach Minkins episode
1850 - Ellen and William Craft living in the house of Lewis Hayden on Phillips Street in Boston (1850 U. S. Census activity)

William Lloyd Garrison's "The Liberator"

Additional anti-slavery actions
Civil War abolitionists
Civil War begins

The Emancipation Proclamation (text)

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	Underground Railroad 1800s		Slave Narratives and biographies (To Be A Slave guide ) 1800s
	Abolitionists 1800s		Fugitive slaves 1800s
	Fugitive Slave Law 1800s		Abolitionism in Massachusetts 1800s