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In this activity, students will increase their knowledge of slavery, slave life and the Underground Railroad by answering questions about the book and song Follow the Drinking Gourd and then writing and illustrating a poem or letter playing the role of a conductor, agent or passenger on the
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Reference Materials, Lessons & Activities
Students will learn about slavery, slave life and the Underground Railroad in this OurStory module. OurStory is a series of modules designed by the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History to help children and adults enjoy exploring history together through the use of objects from the Mu
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Primary Sources, Lessons & Activities, Worksheets
In this activity, students will analyze images of tools that were used on rice plantations to determine each tool's purpose. These objects can tell us a great deal about slavery and the lives of the slaves who worked on rice plantations. It is included in an OurStory module entitled Slave Lif
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
A biography of the man who, after escaping slavery, became an orator, writer, and leader in the abolitionist movement in the nineteenth century.
Author:
Pamela Duncan Edwards
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
The story of a slave's escape on the underground railroad.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
An introduction to a free black man who contributed to science in the eighteenth century.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
The story of two boys growing up in Pennsylvania during 1853, where they encounter slave traders, Harriet Tubman, and the Underground Railroad.
Author:
Andrea Davis Pinkney
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
Banneker, an 18th-century astronomer and mathematician, was a free African American who corresponded with Thomas Jefferson about ending slavery.
Author:
Christopher Curtis
Reading Level:
Middle School
Elijah has the distinction of being the first child born in the Buxton Settlement, which was founded in Ontario in 1849 as a haven for former slaves. Narrator Elijah tells an episodic story that builds a broad picture of Buxton's residents before plunging into the dramatic events that take him ou
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School
The story of a group of slaves' escape on the underground railroad by following directions from the song "follow the drinking gourd."
Author:
Katherine Patterson
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School,Middle School
This historical tale by Katherine Paterson involves its young protagonist, Jip, in the great 19th century struggle between slave owners and abolitionists while sending him into a test of his own loyalty and courage.
Reading Level:
Late Elementary School
A look at plantation life and its use of slavery.
Reading Level:
Early Elementary School,Late Elementary School
A young girl excapes slavery with her mother (from the American Girls Collection).
