THE ROAD TO FREEDOM:
The Underground Railroad, New York and Beyond
A Supplementary American History Textbook
9 x 7.5 inches
108 pages $10

The Underground Railroad helped a people in bondage fulfill their dream of freedom. The Road to Freedom is the history of men and women of conscience: Quakers, abolitionists, and "conductors" of the secret road to freedom. It is a chronicle of African-American heroism in the face of cruel inhumanity.

How the Underground Railroad affected the coming of the Civil War is a topic emphasized by the New York State Social Studies Standards.

The Road to Freedom is designed for 7th grade students and older. At the end of each chapter is a document with a series of questions to help students practice the "Constructed Response" questions on the state examination. The book ends with a document Based Question exercise similar to those on the state exam.

The Road to Freedom is on the NYSTL list for the New York City Board of Education (Fast Track).

Teaching With Documents:
SLAVERY IN NEW YORK

A Teaching Kit for 4th Grade Students and older $25

The Slavery in New York teaching kit includes a complete class set of copies (30 each) of the following three historic documents:

1. A composite colonial-era newspaper advertisement page with actual runaway slave ads (detail left).
2. Cato's Manumission Paper: documents the freeing of a Long Island slave by Nicholas Wyckoff in 1812 (with transcription).
3. William Tallman's Inventory: lists items belonging to the estate of a Queens farmer in 1766, includes the names of his slaves and their estimated market value (with transcription).

A teacher's manual with a brief history of slavery in New York, and lesson plans with worksheets for each of the three historic documents are included.