Publisher's Synopsis
Take your students on a trip on the Underground Railroad, the loosely organized routes to freedom used by fugitive slaves before and during the Civil War. This extraordinary collection of primary source documents, including narratives by Underground Railroad conductors and runaway slaves; a full-color Antebellum map showing slave and free states; runaway slave advertisements; a freedom certificate; abolitionist broadsides; a plan of the Canadian Elgin Settlement; and the Joint Resolution of Congress, signed by Abraham Lincoln, submitting the proposed 13th Amendment to the states for ratification, graphically illustrates the political, economic and human aspects of slavery as well as the courage and ingenuity of runaway slaves and those who helped guide them to freedom.
