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My father was a slave and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear?
--Paul Robeson

Slaves escape by coach. Photographs and Prints Division, Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations.Safe Passage Online.

Slave with scarred back. National Archives (War & Conflict #109)Symbols of Slavery.

Hanging a Slave, South Carolina, 1850s. The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas, Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr., authors; source: Richard Hildreth, Archy Moore, the white slave; or, Memoirs of a Fugitive (New York, 1857), p. 197.Symbols of Slavery.

Fugitive Slaves and Bloodhounds, U. S. South, 1850s. The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas, Jerome S. Handler and Michael L. Tuite Jr., authors; source: Anon., The Suppressed Book About Slavery! Prepared for Publication in 1857 (New York, 1864), facing p. 241.Symbols of Slavery.

Stowage of British ship. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.Lesson Resources.

Rendezvous with Harriet Tubman. Janice Northcutt Huse, JaniceHuse.comWeb Lesson: Myths & Codes of the Underground Railroad.

Slave Handbill. Levi Coffin House Association; Waynet, Inc.Lesson Resources: Finding & Using Primary & Secondary Sources.

Slave father sold Away. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.Lesson Resources: Copyright, WWW and You.

Am I Not Man?. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.Links.

Inspection and Sale. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.Links: UGRR Resources and Links.

Party of slaves. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.Links: WebQuest Links.

President Lincoln. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.Links: Social Studies Links.

Emancipation Poster. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.Links: Civil Rights Links.

The First Vote. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.Civil Rights Issues Today.

Cincinnati 1835. Cincinnati Museum Center - Cincinnati Historical Society Library.Civil Rights Issues Today: Overview of Civil Rights in SW Ohio.

Slave Auction at the South. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.Professional Development.

Colored People of Boston. Courtesy of the Library of Congress.Workshop Registration.

Slave Handbill Moses. Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library, Duke University.About Safe Passage: Project Description.