THE ROAD TO FREEDOM: The Underground Railroad, New York and Beyond
A Supplementary American History Textbook
9 x 7.5 inches 108 pages $10 plus $3 for shipping and handling (20% discount on school and library orders of 25 copies or more)*
The Road to Freedom is on the NYSTL list for the New York City Department of Education (Fast Track)

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 tropic 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.

Teaching With Documents: SLAVERY IN NEW YORK
a Teaching Kit for 4th Grade Students and older
$25 per class kit (plus $5 for shipping and handling)
*call (718) 939-0647 ext. 17 for shipping and handling charges on multiple copy orders.
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.
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.