Resources for the Underground Railroad

"Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves,
or we know where we can find information upon it."
- Samuel Johnson

Background Information Primary Sources Maps

Group of "contrabands" at Foller's House, VA
Photo courtesy Library of Congress (No.0055)

 

Background Information - secondary sources

• National Park Service: Our Shared History
• African American Heritage
• National Park Service: Learn About the UGRR
• Africans in America
• The History Net: African American History
• The History Channel
• History and Geography of the Underground Railroad
• Congress and the Underground Railroad
• Taking the Train to Freedom
• Video and Sound Segment on Underground Railroad
• Undergound Railroad Music Video
• Documentary Video Segments of the Underground Railroad
• Public Broadcasting

• Slave Narratives
• Photograph of Aaron L. Benedict's safe house
• The Refugee: or the Narratives of Fugitive Slaves in Canada
• Escape from Freedom by Frederick Douglass

1. http://www.nps.gov/carto/PDF/UGRRmap4.pdf
2. http://www.beavton.k12.or.us/greenway/leahy/ugrr/routes.htm
3. http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/underground/routes.htm
4. blank map of the United States
5. blank map of Canada