The Underground Railroad links:
http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/snhtml/snhome.html
Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves.
www.nationalgeographic.com/railroad/
The history of the Underground Railroad, related sites, and interactive programs compiled by National Geographic, Inc.
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center, Cincinnati, Ohio. Freedom Seekers and the Underground Railroad provides families and students with a concise, age-appropriate summary of the history of the Underground Railroad. Concentrating on the period 1830-1865, this exhibit describes the courageous and clever actions of men and women involved in this national movement.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aia/part4/4p2920.html
Butler Island 1839. Description of Pierce Butler's St. Simon Island Plantation, where a mass exodus took place when runaways were invited to join British troops in the war of 1812.