antislavery movements

Introduces students to the true stories of the men and women who helped slaves escape to freedom through the Underground Railroad from the late 1700s to the Civil War, with twenty-one activities to aid in learning.

A look at the network known as the underground railraod, which helped slaves escape to free states in the northern United States.

Explores the history of the United States in the mid-nineteenth century.

A comprehensive biography of Massachusetts politician and statesman, David Herbert Donald, who was the leader of his state's anti-slavery movement and the Radical Republicans in the Senate.

A reinterpretation of the origins of the Civil War, focusing on the debate over disunion which escalated in the 1840s and 1850s to the point at which war seemed the only way to resolve the question of whether the United States could survive intact.

Young Aminata Diallo is abducted from her West African home in 1745 and sold into slavery in North Carolina; but on a trip to New York City with her master, she escapes in the midst of an anti-British demonstration and helps the British transport hundreds of slaves to freedom in Nova Scotia.

Presents a narrative history that brings together the ideals of both Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass; and discusses the central issues of slavery, race, and equality in Civil War America.

Examines the evangelical defense used to justify slavery in the nineteenth century and explains how it influenced the South's moral, intellectual, and socio-economic development and its conflict with the North.

Presents a narrative overview of the history of the abolitionist movement in America, providing information on its religious beginnings, its conflicts, and its key figures, including Frederick Douglas, William Lloyd Garrison, and more.

Presents a comprehensive history of abolitionist John Brown describing his life-long campaign against the institution of slavery in the mid-1800s and shows how his terrorist activities became the catalyst that led to the Civil War.