• The Underground Railroad 
  "was an informal network of secret routes and safe houses used by 19th century Black slaves in the United States to escape to free states and Canada with the aid of abolitionists who were sympathetic to their cause. The term is also applied to the abolitionists who aided the fugitives. Other various routes led to Mexico or overseas. Created in the early nineteenth century, the Underground Railroad was at its height between 1850 and 1860.  One estimate suggests that by 1850, 100,000 slaves had escaped via the "Railroad". Canada was a popular destination with over 30,000 people arriving there to escape enslavement via the network at its peak, though US Census figures only account for 6,000."
  (Wikipedia)

  

• The Fugitive Slave Act and the Underground Railroad
  "In 1899, Harriet Tubman purchased a home in Auburn, New York. Tubman, after escaping slavery, lead, on 15 trips to the South, hundreds of Blacks to freedom, via The Underground Railroad, in the North and Canada. 
  This webpage discusses the Underground Railroad (UGRR). It was the Fugitive Slave Act which increased the necessity of the UGRR."
  + MAPS
  (math.buffalo.edu)

  

• Websites related to the Underground Railroad
  (nyhistory.com)

• Flight to Freedom - Rochester's Underground Railroad - a guide
  See the GLOSSARY Page 16
  (rmsc.org)

  
  Timeline Page 20

• Black Peoples of America - How Slaves Lived
  "Africans sold as slaves in the Americas had to rely on their owners providing them with housing or building materials, pots and pans for cooking and eating, food and clothing. Many slaves did the best they could with what they were given. Most did not dare complain for fear of receiving a whipping or worse punishment."
  (historyonthenet.com)

  

• Slavery Museum
  (slaverymuseum4teens.wikispaces.com)
  - "a pretty impressive multimedia site that appears to be designed by students." (Larry Ferlazzo)

• January 2010 is declared National Slavery and Human Trafficking Prevention Month
  - Presidential Proclamation
  (whitehouse.gov)

• The Economics of Human Trafficking (t1.gstatic.com) - UPDATED
  
  

• From Slavery to Civil Rights
  "Use this interactive activity to introduce African-American history through primary sources."
  (lcweb2.loc.gov)

  

• The Atlantic Slave Trade and Slave Life in the Americas: A Visual Record (hitchcock.itc.virginia.edu)
  "The thousand images in this collection have been selected from a wide range of sources, most of them dating from the period of slavery."

• Slavery and the Making of America (PBS)
  
  + Timeline
  + Slave Memories : audio clips of first hand accounts recorded by the WPA.
  
  + Activities
  
  + a Virtual Museum
  
  

• Voices from the Days of Slavery - Audio Interviews (memory.loc.gov)
  
  

• The Underground Railroad - History of slavery - Pictures - Information
  - with activities for kids
  (nationalgeographic.com)
  
  

• Transatlantic Slavery (Merseyside Maritime Museum)
  The trade triangle - Africa before European slavery - European traders - Life on board - Arrival in the Americas -
  Teachers notes
  This gallery "seeks to increase understanding of what has happened to people of African descent in the modern world."

  

• Black Peoples of America - The Triangular Trade (History on the Net)
  
  

• SLAVERY in NEW YORK (slaveryinnewyork.org)
  NY Historical Society's exhibit on the years before NY abolition in 1827.
  "The Education section provides materials written for middle school children that include
  a teacher's guide, informational articles, fact sheet, glossary, photo cards, life stories, and more."
  (Education World)
  
  

• Learn about the History of Slavery around the world (school.discovery)
  
  

• Lest We Forget, The Triumph Over Slavery "explores the transatlantic slave trade." (digital.nypl.org)
  
  
  
  

PowerPoint Presentations :

• The Underground Railroad - Free Presentations in PowerPoint format
  (americanhistory.pppst.com)

Photos, Paintings and Posters :

• Runaway slaves on the Underground Railroad (clccharter.org)

  

• The slave trade and slavery in New England (choices.edu)

  

• The Economics of Human Trafficking (t1.gstatic.com) - UPDATED
  
  
  
  
  

• Eastman Johnson - Negro Life at the South - a painting
  (Wikipedia)
  or HERE (banjoonmyknee.com)

  

• AFFICHE POUR UNE VENTE D'ESCLAVES - 1769 (encyclopirate.com)

  

Maps :

• Products Of Slavery 
  "is an amazing online visualization of products throughout the world created through using child or forced labor."
  (productsofslavery.org)

  

• The Underground Railroad - MAPS
  (math.buffalo.edu)

• Human trafficking map (staraste.files.wordpress.com)
  
  
  
  
  

Vocabulary :

• Flight to Freedom - Rochester's Underground Railroad - a guide
  See the GLOSSARY Page 16
  (rmsc.org)

• Harriet Tubman Vocabulary Quilt
  "Here are some words we think are important for you to know as you learn about Harriet Tubman and the Underground Railroad."
  - with definitions and pictures
  (lhric.org/pocantico)
  

Activities :

• Punishments on the Slave Plantations : Pictures with short texts + A memory game
  (prezi.com)

  

• Triangular Trade Wordsearch - interactive (History on the Net)

• Triangular Trade Quickquiz - interactive (History on the Net)
  

Lesson plans :

• The History of Slavery in America : Essays / Lesson Plans / Image Gallery with cartoons / Encyclopedia
  (slaveryinamerica.org)

• Maryland and the Underground Railroad
  with Video clips, Teacher tips, Lesson plans and activities, a Teacher Toolbox...
  (pathways.thinkport.org)

  

• Slavery.
  "Have a look at the article, story, word game, cartoon, trivia and links."
  (British Council)

  

Webquests :

• THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD - a webquest
  (Laurence Bernard - Ac. Martinique)

• The Underground Railroad - a webquest (edci.purdue.edu)
  "By the time you are done with this quest you will have:
  - a greater knowledge of the Underground Railroad as a national institution
  - the ability to describe the various routes taken by escaped slaves, the methods used to camouflage their escapes and some famous 'stations' on the UGRR
  - followed a modern-day recreation of the UGRR
  - written a description of various Indiana routes on the UGRR, including one famous 'station' in Indiana
  - work in pairs to make a map that indicates where an escaped slave might have traveled in Indiana."

• A webquest on SLAVERY (with the answers)
  "Explore the ways that slavery has been woven into the fabric of societies in America and around the world." (e-teacher)
  
  

Stories :

• Slaves' stories (diduknow.info)
  
  

Poems :

• The Alphabet of Slavery
  "Watch a number of actors read the poem "Alphabet of Slavery."
  The poem was published in "The Poetry of Slavery, an Anglo-American anthology," 1764 - 1865.
  Each letter of the alphabet vividly depicts one aspect of slavery from, "A is an African torn from his home" to "Zealously labour to set the Slaves free"."
  (YouTube)

Cartoons :

• Slavery recipe (deviantart.com)

  

Animations / Videos :

• Bristol Calabar Slave Trade Link (YouTube)

• Presentation Amistad clip (YouTube)
  
  

• Amistad - Theatrical Trailer (YouTube)
• Cartoons for Child Rights series (UNICEF) - FLASH ANIMATION
  
  

Songs :

• Redemption song by Bob Marley
  "Old pirates, yes, they rob I;
  Sold I to the merchant ships,
  Minutes after they took I
  From the bottomless pit...
  Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
  None but ourselves can free our minds."

• Folk Songs About Juneteenth and Slavery (nwfolk.com)