The Sugar Grove

Historical Commission

 

UGRR Resources
   
 
Abolitionists Sites Organizations The Sugar Grove Convention The Great Reform Resources
   
Online Reference Materials
  UGRR Walking Tour of Cherry Hill Cemetery
  Sugar Grove UGRR Driving Tour
  1902 Testimony of UGRR Workers including Catherine Harris of Jamestown
  Lesson Plans for Teachers from the documentary Safe Harbor
  Build a Ladies Fugitive Aid Society Garden with your Class
  The Fugitive Slave Act of 1851
   
First-Hand Narratives
  By William Wells Brown, the nation's first African-American playwright and novelist
  The American Fugitive in Europe. Sketches of Places and People Abroad
  The Black Man: His Antecedents, His Genius, and His Achievements
  Clotel; or, The President's Daughter: A Narrative of Slave Life in the United States
  My Southern Home: or, The South and Its People
  Narrative of William W. Brown, a Fugitive Slave. Written by Himself
  Three Years in Europe: Or, Places I Have Seen and People I Have Met
  The Escape; or, A Leap for Freedom
   
  By Rev. JW Loguen, The Underground Railroad King
  The Rev. J. W. Loguen, as a Slave and as a Freeman. A Narrative of Real Life
   
  By Frederick Douglass, Father of the Anti-Slavery Movement
  Life and Times of Frederick Douglass, Written by Himself
  My Bondage and My Freedom. Part I. Life as a Slave. Part II. Life as a Freeman
  Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave
  Uncle Tom's Companions: Or, Facts Stranger Than Fiction.
   
  By Lewis G. Clarke, The Real-Life George Harris of Uncle Tom's Cabin
 
Narrative of the Sufferings of Lewis Clarke
  A Key to Uncle Tom's Cabin
   
  By Sallie Holley, Female Lecturer against Slavery
 

A life for liberty By Sallie Holley

http://books.google.com/books?id=SNUZAAAAYAAJ&dq=A+Life+for+Liberty:+Anti-Slavery+and+Other+Letters+of+Sallie+Holley&printsec=frontcover&source=bl&ots=pRyFdQlOjQ&sig=bfyRufm7wsVbVHo_RfGUFa3twUY&hl=en&ei=0GkTStvaJZCm8gSK67WPBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1

   
Books & Videos
  The documentary Safe Harbor
  Uncle Tom's Cabin online
   
Organizations devoted to Telling the Story
  Harry T. Burleigh Society, Erie, PA
  Blackstorytelling League of Rochester, NY
  PA's Quest for Freedom
  Rochester Freedom Trail
  John Brown Farm Museum in New Richmond, PA
 Moonwater Productions by Djed Snead

 

Community History Underground Railroad Education & Resources

 

About Us Join Library Community Development Council Gift Shop

©2009 Sugar Grove Historical Commission

Site created and designed by Beanie Publishing.  All Rights Reserved