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1. Trial and Imprisonment of Jonathan ...Google Books [Too long to print the entire text; you may want to print the pages that most interest you and potentially your students. This book is central to our workshop]
2. Jane Landers, "Southern Passage: The Forgotten Route to Freedom in Florida." A taste of Landers's pioneering work]
3. Nathaniel Millett, "Defining Freedom in the Atlantic Borderlands of the Revolutionary Southeast."
[An informative new article on Negro
Fort, one of our destinations]
4. Reginald Horsman,"The Paradox of Dartmoor Prison:" [An interesting story of a London prison in the War of 1812. It's importance won't become clear until we take our walking tour of downtown Pensacola]
5. Gretchen Catron, "Reconstructing
Resistance through Fugitive Slave Ads," and Callinda Taylor, "Antebellum Slavery Online." [An informative and timely excerpt from a recent Organization of American Historians Magazine.]
Jane Landers, Black Society in Spanish Florida [A classic, the book that started the
conversation on the African American experience in early Florida]
Stanley Harrold, The African American
Odyssey [A standard, readable, and visually
satisfying text on African-American history that I have used in a number of my classes]
David Blight, Passages to Freedom: the Underground Railroad in History and Memory [An
anthology of recent articles on the Underground Railroad, edited by one of my favorite
scholars. The piece by Landers, "Southern Passage: The Forgotten Route to Freedom in
Florida," is required reading (see above). Many of the others, in addition to being
interesting and informative might be useful in your classrooms.]
Fergus M. Bordewich, Bound for Canaan: The Underground Railroad and the War for the
Soul of America [the most recent, respectable narrative of the Underground Railroad. A
great summer read!]
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/index.htm
The Making of African American Identity: A project of the National Humanities Center, this teacher toolbox
looks at community, identity, enslavement, freedom with a variety of primary source documents.
http://nationalhumanitiescenter.org/pds/maai/community/text7/gragstonwpanarrative.pdf
Narrative of Arnold Gragston, underground railroad "conductor" from the National Humanities Center
Resource Toolbox
http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/documents/ss_map_11_12_08.pdf
The Partnership for 21st Century Skills and the National Council for the Social Studies have teamed up to
present an array of Social Studies skills for the next generation of learners.
http://www.inmotionaame.org/migrations/landing.cfm?migration=2
Runaway journeys: The African American Migration Experience from the Schomburg Center for Research in
Black Culture at the New York Public Library; includes images, maps, text for teachers and students
http://www.nga.gov/feature/bearden/index.shtm
National Gallery of Art exhibit on the Art of Romare Bearden
http://www.nga.gov/collection/gallery/ggafamer/ggafamer-main1.html
African American Highlights from the National gallery of Art, an exhibit of 150 works by African American
artists.
http://www.nga.gov/education/classroom/
Teacher support information from the National Gallery of Art
http://www.whitney.org/jacoblawrence/index.html
Jacob Lawrence: Exploring Stories. Educational website supporting the images and stories of artist Jacob
Lawrence who has also authored some books for children on the Underground Railroad.
http://www.bermudanationalgallery.com/docs/lesson%20plan%201.pdf
Lesson Plan for Jacob Lawrence painting, "Forward Together" about Harriet Tubman and the Underground
Railroad
http://www.slaveryinamerica.org
Slavery In America Teacher Resources, lesson plans, PBS Series Slavery and the Making of America