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A Look at Slavery through Posters and Broadsides

Teacher Resources:

Africans in America
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/

The Boisterous Sea of Liberty
http://www.gilderlehrman.org/teachers/boisterous/index.html

Suggested Books:
  • Brill, Marlene Targ. Allen Jay and the Underground Railroad (Carolrhoda Books, 1993).
    Erickson, Paul. Daily Life in a Southern Plantation (Puffin Books, 2000).
  • Hamilton, Virginia. Anthony Burns: The Defeat and Triumph of a Fugitive (Alfred Knopf, 1988).
  • Hamilton, Virginia. The People Could Fly (Alfred Knopf, 1985).
  • Hakim, Joy. The History of US: Liberty for All? 1800 - 1960 (Oxford University Press, 1999).
  • Haskin, Jim. Get on Board, The Story of the Underground Railway (Scholastic, 1995).
  • Hopkinson, Deborah. Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt (Dragonfly, 1993).
  • Lester, Julius. From Slave Ship to Freedom Road (Puffin Books, 1998).
  • Lester, Julius. To Be A Slave (Scholastic, 1968).
  • Levine, Ellen. If You Traveled on the Underground Railroad (Scholastic, 1993).
  • McKissack, Patricia & Fredrick. Day of Jubilee (Scholastic, 2003).
  • Mitchell, Elizabeth. Journey to the Bottomless Pitt, The Story of Stephen Bishop and Mammoth Cave (Viking, 2004).
  • Rappaport, Doreen. Freedom River (Disney Press, 2000).
  • Rappaport, Doreen. No More! Stories and Songs of Slave Resistance (Candlewick Press, 2002).
  • Winter, Jeanette. Follow the Drinking Gourd (Dragonfly Books, 1992).




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