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Educational Resources
The following links to discovering the legacy of the Underground Railroad are available right here at the Michigan Historical Center web site. Check back often—we'll be providing more links to our own new resources and to trusted sites throughout the web.
From the Michigan Historical Center
Michigan Freedom Trail Lessons - "Building Collective Narratives: Teaching Michigan Stories" from the Michigan Freedom Trail Commission
Teachers' Stuff from the Michigan Historical Museum
"Malinda Paris: Memorial of a Child of the Underground Railroad"
Michigan Time Traveler, a Newspapers in Education project of the Michigan Historical
Museum and the Lansing State
"The Underground Railroad" (February 13, 2002)
"Thorton and Lucie Blackburn Escape"
Black history links.
Compiled by the Michigan Historical Museum, these links include—but are not limited to—the Underground Railroad.
Elsewhere on the WWW
Accessible Archives
Accessible Archives is a subscription "full text database of primary source material" of 19th-century African American newspapers.
Africans in America
A companion to Africans in America, a six-hour public television series, the Africans in America web site chronicles the history of racial slavery in the United States from the start of the Atlantic slave trade in the 16th century to the end of the American Civil War in 1865. It exploress the central paradox that is at the heart of the American story: a democracy that declared all men equal but enslaved and oppressed one people to provide independence and prosperity to another. Africans in America examines the economic and intellectual foundations of slavery in America and reveals how the presence of African people and their struggle for freedom transformed America.
Documenting the American South
Documenting the American South (DocSouth) is a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature and culture. Currently, DocSouth includes ten thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews and songs, taken primarily from the holdings of the University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
The Geography of Slavery in Virginia
The Geography of Slavery in Virginia is a digital collection of advertisements for runaway and captured slaves and servants in 18th- and 19th-century Virginia newspapers. Building on the rich descriptions of individual slaves and servants in the ads, the project offers a personal, geographical and
documentary context for the study of slavery in Virginia, from colonial times to the Civil War.
Contact the Michigan Historical Center.
Updated 07/09/2010
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