Underground Railroad

Language Arts Connections

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Underground Railroad
http://webcenter.netscape.teachervision.com/lesson-plans/lesson-4166.html
Online web lesson for the Underground Railroad.

National Geographic Society - The Underground Railroad
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/
You are a slave. Your body, your time, your very breath belong to a farmer in 1850s Maryland. Six long days a week you tend his fields and make him rich. You have never tasted freedom. You never expect to.

National Underground Railroad Freedom Center
http://www.undergroundrailroad.org/
The Freedom Center (opening summer 2004) offers lessons and reflections on the struggle for freedom. Using exhibits, programs, research and interactive experiences, we will promote collaborative learning, dialog and action to inspire today's freedom movements.

The Underground Railroad
http://education.ucdavis.edu/NEW/STC/lesson/socstud/railroad/contents.htm
Hazel Carrasco and Owen Solberg made the Underground Railroad Site as part of the Rural Learning Network, a collaborative effort to use technology to link rural schools together. It was one of many projects made by student-teachers in the UC Davis Division of Education.

NPS: Underground Railroad: Special Resource Study
http://www.nps.gov/undergroundrr/contents.htm
The Underground Railroad was neither "underground" nor a "railroad," but was a loose network of aid and assistance to fugitives from bondage. Perhaps as many as one hundred thousand enslaved persons may have escaped in the years between the american Revolution and the Civil War.

Aboard the Underground Railroad: A National Register Travel Itinerary
http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/
At the most dramatic level, the Underground Railroad provided stories of guided escapes from the South, rescues of arrested fugitives in the North, complex communication systems, and individual acts of bravery and suffering in the quest for freedom for all.

Local Underground Railroad Related Sites
http://muweb.millersv.edu/~ugrr/resources/relatedsites.htm
A number of websites have been developed that highlight the role of local sites in the Underground Railroad. (Lancaster County, PA)

The Underground Railroad and York County, Pennsylvania
http://muweb.millersv.edu/~ugrr/yorkugrr/york_ugrr.htm
It was in York County, it is believed, where the term "Underground Railroad" originated.

Traveling the long road to freedom, one step at a time
http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/issues96/oct96/undergroundrr.html
When historian Anthony Cohen set out to retrace a route along the legendary Underground Railroad, he recovered a piece of the American past