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Lesson Plan
Teachers.net

Teachers.net Lesson Plans: Slavery

For Teachers 3rd - 8th
This lesson offers a way to teach about the Underground Railroad by using maps and discussion about the problems fugitive slaves would encounter while trying to escape.
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Lesson Plan
Library of Virginia

Virginia Memory: Henry Box Brown Escapes Slavery

For Teachers 3rd - 5th
How did Henry Box Brown escape from slavery? A lesson based on the true story of his escape, Henry's Freedom Box by Elden Livine.
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Lesson Plan
US National Archives

Docsteach: Oh Freedom! Sought Under the Fugitive Slave Act

For Teachers 9th - 10th
This activity includes primary sources from the official records of the U.S. District Court at Boston that tell the story of William and Ellen Craft, a young couple from Macon, GA, who escaped to freedom in Boston in 1848. Students will...
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Primary
Other

Liberty Letters: Behind the Story: Escape on the Underground Railroad

For Students 9th - 10th
Josiah Henson's eyewitness accounts of his escape from slavery on the freedom train to Canada.
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Whiteboard
ClassFlow

Class Flow: Follow the Drinking Gourd

For Teachers Pre-K - 1st
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is based upon the book, Follow the Drinking Gourd.