Gretchen's+Sources

My final project is on the Underground Railroad. Here are my primary sources:

3D2 Documents, Data, Cartoons Documents: [] This first site is from the Pennsylvania Historical Society and is William Still’s notes on people who came through the Underground RR. I can use this source to get information on the number of slaves Still rescued. [] This site is from the PHS also and is a group of papers from the PA Abolition Society on many things the Society was involved in, including improving the lives of African Americans. I can use this site to give background info on how PA was abolitionist from very early on. [] This is an account by William Still on trying to get a slave women and her family free. Still was a leading memebr of the URR in PA. I can use this site to talk about cunductor's on the URR in PA. [] This site has multiple primary sources on the beliefs of the Quakers about slavery and the Underground RR. I can use it to talk about the connections between the Quakers and the URR. [] Thanks to Doug for this site! It has great secondary info on the URR and has primary sources in it as well. I can use it both for background knowledge on the URR and to show the primary sources within it. [] This site has both secondary and primary sources. It can be used to understand slavery and the abolition of slavery in the North.

Photographs: [] This is a runaway slave advertisement. Many of these were posters that were posted throughout PA trying to locate runaway slaves. I can use it to show the dangers of running away. [] Picture of Harriet Tubman, the Moses of the Afircan People, conductor of the URR. I can haev the students analyze the type of woman they think Tubman was by her photograph, then talk about the real Tubman. [] A picture of a house that was a stop on the Underground RR. I can show the students that everyday people were involved in teh URR and showing them a picture of an actual house will help to enforce that. [] A picture of Henry Box Brown coming out of his box. I can use this picture to show teh lengths that people will go to gain freedom. [] Runaway slave poster, for a family of slaves. This shows that they were not only hunting down men, but women and children. Again, this shows how desperate people were for freedom and how dangerous it was to run away.

Song: [] Song sung by Henry Box Brown when he was removed from his box. This will be useful in showing the students the joy of runaway slaves when they reach freedom. [] Slave Hymn. This site provies the audio snipit of the song as well. The students can hear waht the song actually sounded like. It also show the character of the slaves, that they didn't wish torture on their owners, just freedom for themselves. [] This site provides various slave songs and thier meaning. It will be very useful to help the students analyze and pull the hidden codes out of slave songs. [] This site provides over 200 slave songs and URR songs. It is a great secondary source because it explains the history of gospel singing as well as providing the actual lyrics. It has many uses in this way. [] This site shows actual sheet music of many different songs. It has the music and titles of songs created by William Allen. the studetns can use this to analyze the actual sheet music of slave songs.

Maps and Video's: [] This is a map of slave states vs. free states. I can use this map to show the prevalence of slavery and the divide of the nation. Students can also analyze the distance from a slave state to a free state. [] This is a map of the break down of how many slaves are in each state. This map can be used to determine how many slaves there actually were and what percentage of the population was made up of slaves. [] This is a map of Underground railroad routes. This is a great way for the students to analyze how the slaves got out on the URR [] This is a more detailed map of the URR with city names on it. This map can be sued to analyze the routes of teh URR. [] This is an interactive map of the URR. This can be used to get students to tarce paths of the URR. [] This is a map of URR in a twon in Montgomery County (Kennett Square). Students can use this map to see how involved that county was in the URR. [] This site lists important stops on the URR by state. Students can use it to see where URR stops were in PA and other states close by.